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vesture

Meaningclothing

Common meaning: clothing or dress, in literary use

Journey through time

  1. Latinwestit-ussource
  2. Late Latinvestitura‘clothing’source
  3. Old Frenchvesture‘a clothing, arraying’source
  4. Englishvesture‘clothing or dress, in literary use’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin westit-us ‘clothing’.

Roots

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