All 3 Uses of
vestment
in
War and Peace
- By the chair stood the priests, their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the service.†
Chpt 1 *
- Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments—one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers.†
Chpt 10
- There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up—head and all—with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(vestment) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy