vestiture
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/, /ˈvɛstitʃə/
Noun
vestiture (countable and uncountable, plural vestitures)
- (biology) The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
- (rare) Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
- (literary or archaic) Clothes, clothing.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:
- Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.
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