vestiment

English

Etymology

From Old French vestiment, vestement, or its source, Latin vestīmentum, from vestiō (“to clothe”).

Noun

vestiment (plural vestiments)

1. (obsolete) Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:

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

1. Alternative form of vestement.