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gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy

It takes a moment for Lev to recognize him—mainly because he's not wearing his modest pastor's vestments.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

Monsieur Bournisien, in full vestments, was singing in a shrill voice.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
The Demon wore robes of simple white, but it seemed as though every atom of the Demon's form and vestments radiated light.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
To Amory it was a haunting grief to see him lying in his coffin, with closed hands upon his purple vestments.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
He folded his vestments, put away the hymn-books, and closed the great Bible.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Over his other vestments, he wore a white satin chasuble with a golden cross on the front and back.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and to pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Adorning her altars, vestments, spires, and Scripture was the singular image of Christianity—that of a precious, sacrificed human being.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
With fleeces, with vestments, I have tried to cover the blue-black blade.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
He had a special passion, also, for ecclesiastical vestments, as indeed he had for everything connected with the service of the Church.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
On top of each tomb, in full papal vestments, lay life-sized semblances of each Pope, shown in death, arms folded across their chests.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
I stole the wine-stained cloth in the sacristy while the priest was taking his vestments off.
David Almond -- Clay
His head with olive crown'd, his hand a censer bears, His hoary beard and holy vestments bring His lost idea back: I know the Roman king.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Chingachgook, or the Serpent, eyed the vestments with strong disgust; but he saw the usefulness of the disguise, if not its absolute necessity.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
It was the Reverend Strick, walking in his vestments toward my parents.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
He smelled of aftershave and the mothball smell of the closet at the church where he hung his vestments.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
In Salinas, Olive had experienced niceties of living, the choir and vestments, Altar Guild, and bean suppers of the Episcopal church.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
D'Artagnan, however, could only see enough to recognize the form of her vestments, not enough to distinguish her features.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Have someone bring in my saddle-bags, and I will put on my vestments.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

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