vêtement
Appearance
French
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vɛt.mɑ̃/
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Noun
[edit]vêtement m (plural vêtements)
- garment, item of clothing
- (in the plural) clothes, clothing
- Synonym: fringue
- (heraldry) a set of four triangles covering the corners of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field (the edges of which reach the edges of the shield) in the middle (compare vêtu)
- 1892, Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Le blason héraldique: manuel nouveau de l'art héraldique de la science du blason et de la polychromie féodale d'après les règles du Moyen Age, page 45:
- SCHWERIN De gueules, au vêtement d'argent. […]
- SCHWERIN Gules vêtu argent. […]
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vêtement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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