What's the difference between raiment and vesture?

Raiment


Definition:

  • (n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
  • (n.) An article of dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There’s no mystique left now, not even a tattered raiment,” he told a baffled Jeremy Paxman in 1999 , “and frankly, I’m a lot better for it.
  • (2) She cloaked those words, “refugee” and “asylum seeker” – words that have become effortlessly dehumanising – in the raiments of her fierce, complex, open individuality, and did that not only for herself, but for everyone who has ever been described that way.

Vesture


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
  • (v. t.) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
  • (v. t.) Seizin; possession.

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