Vesture

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

2. The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.

3. Seizin; possession.