vesture
Clothing, archaically speaking
Vesture is a literary or archaic word for clothing or garments, especially formal or ceremonial dress: clad in priestly vesture.
More broadly, it can mean any covering: the green vesture of the hills.
The word appears mostly in religious, legal, or deliberately elevated contexts.
Body coverings worn daily
- attirePersonal garments collectively
- garmentsArticles of clothing
- raimentClothing, especially fine
- apparelClothing collectively
habiliments · dress · outfit · robes · gown · cloak · mantle · habit
Clothing, especially fine
- arrayOrdered collection or display
- habitSettled regular tendency
- garbWhat one wears
- trappingsOutward signs of status
accoutrements · adornment · cloth · livery · caparison · panoply · archaic · poetic
clothing
Body coverings worn daily
apparel · habiliments · dress · outfit · robes · gown · cloak · mantle · habit · finery
raiment
Clothing, especially fine
trappings · accoutrements · adornment · cloth · livery · caparison · panoply · archaic · poetic · biblical
cassock
Full-length clerical garment
- albLiturgical white robe
- surpliceWhite ecclesiastical overgarment
- chasubleLiturgical overgarment for clergy
stole · cope · mitre · biretta · cincture · maniple · pallium · tippet · clerical · canonical
shroud
Burial cloth or covering
wrap · swathe · envelop · enwrap · encase · drape · sheath · pall · canopy · screen