vestment

IPA: vˈɛstmɛnt

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.
(in the plural) Clothing.
(archaic) An article of clothing, especially an outer garment.

Examples of "vestment" in Sentences

You will see every kind of vestment and liturgical object.
He cannot allow you, or any other man, to tear again and spoil that vestment which is the work of His hands. "
A vestment is a ceremonial robe; a vest is a sleeveless garment now worn more by stylish women than by male business executives.
If you spend hundreds of hours and years watching TV, does that time suddenly become your "vestment" and then your own intellectual property?
Literally, the word means the "action of putting something in to somewhere else" perhaps originally related to a person's garment or 'vestment'.
After this, in the Italian remains, the vestment is shorter and the sleeves narrower although the traces of the change are at first only here and there noticeable.
Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Hewlett, who spent 31 years as a monk, adorned the home with religious pieces like a wood-carved body of Christ in the living room and an antique vestment in the dining room, shown here.
[34] The term "vestment" was often used to include not merely the chasuble, but also the other vestments of the celebrant and his assistant ministers; sometimes it also included the vestments of the altar, the frontal and upper frontal; it nearly always included the apparels, sometimes also the albe and amice, but at other times these were reckoned separately among the linen.