vestiture

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/, /ˈvɛstitʃə/

Noun

vestiture (countable and uncountable, plural vestitures)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

2. (rare) Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.).
3. (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

• servitute

Italian

Noun

vestiture f

1. plural of vestitura

Latin

Participle

vestītūre

1. vocative masculine singular of vestītūrus