VESTITURE

vestiture

(noun) an archaic term for clothing

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

Anagrams

• servitute

Source: Wiktionary


Ves"ti*ture, n. Etym: [See Vesture.]

Definition: In vestiture. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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