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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/, /ˈvɛstitʃə/
Noun
vestiture (countable and uncountable, plural vestitures)
- (biology) The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys:Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
- (rare) Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
- (literary or archaic) Clothes, clothing.
1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
vestiture f
- plural of vestitura
Latin
Participle
vestītūre
- vocative masculine singular of vestītūrus