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Webster 1913 Edition

(?; 135)

Noun.

[See

Investiture.

[R.]

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.

vestiture f

vestītūre