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Synonyms for vesture

  • noun

Most common

clothes clothing garment vestment

All synonyms

Noun

vestment, clothing, clothes, garment, robe, wear, dress, apparel, garb, attire, costume, gear, habit, wearable, habiliment, raiment formal dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A covering of, or like, clothing.

Forms

Plural
vestures → vestments, clothings, garments, robes…

Choose the right word

Vesture, Array, Raiment, Habit or Dress?

Array, raiment, and vesture are archaic or poetic; so, too, is habit, except in technical use to denote a lady's riding-dress.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • clothes Please look at the girl who wore the blue clothes.
  • clothing She bought articles of clothing one after another.
  • garment 2. Sew together the shoulder of the garment body.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
vesturesteady
clothesrising
clothingrising
garmentrising
vestmentfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
wear1, gear1, robe1, garb1
5 letters
dress1, habit2
6 letters
attire3
7 letters
clothes1, costume2, apparel3, garment2, raiment
8 letters
clothing2, wearable3, vestment2
10 letters
habiliment

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (habit2 = 2 syllables).