Both Uses
vestment
in
The Once and Future King
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- He had left his list beside the barrel, and this recorded, among other articles: a salade garnessed with golde, iij peire gantelez, a vestment, a mesbooke, an auter cloth, a peir of brigandines, a pyssying basin of silver, x schertes for my Lord, a jakete of leather, and a bagge of chessmen.†
Book 3 *
- An archbishop of Canterbury, having excommunicated all the prebendaries of St Paul's in a pet, rushed into the Priory of St. Bartholomew and knocked out the sub-prior in the middle of the chapel—which created such an uproar that his own vestments were torn off, revealing a suit of armour underneath, and he had to flee to Lambeth in a boat.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(vestment) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)