vestiment

English

Etymology

A variant of vestment influenced by its etymon Latin vestīmentum (from vestiō (“to clothe”)).

Noun

vestiment (plural vestiments)

1. (obsolete) Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.

Middle French

Noun

vestiment m (plural vestiments)

1. Alternative form of vestement

Old French

Noun

vestiment oblique singular, m (oblique plural vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative singular vestimenz or vestimentz, nominative plural vestiment)

1. Alternative form of vestement