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Vestment meaning
A robe, gown, or other article of clothing worn as an indication of office. | Any of the special articles of clothing worn by members of the clergy etc., especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist. | Clothing.
Example sentences (4)
A short text describing his pontificate was sealed inside a metal cylinder and placed with his body along with episcopal palliums, the white wool vestment worn around the neck that symbolizes a bishop’s ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Then with some help from the nuns, slides on his final vestment, a piercing green robe.
Along with the tiara, a domed headdress made in the form of three crowns, it is a part of the Pope’ vestment.
It was, however the choice of red-brown as the order's vestment colour that, as early as the 17th century, saw 'capuchin' used also as a term for a specific colour.