different between togs vs vesture

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??z

Noun

togs

1. plural of tog

Noun

togs pl (plural only)

1. (Britain, slang) Clothes.
   • 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist,

     'Look at his togs, Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his togs! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'

   • 2016, San Francisco Examiner

     And the costumes looked like workout togs.

2. (with noun qualifier) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.

3. (Ireland, Australia (Queensland), New Zealand) swimsuit, both the women's and men's tight-fitting type (in some regions referred to as "speedos").

Synonyms

• (clothes for specific occasion or use): bathers, cossie, swimmers

Verb

togs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tog

Anagrams

• GTOs, gost, gots, stog

Swedish

Verb

togs

1. past tense passive of ta.
2. past tense passive of taga.

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteure, from Vulgar Latin vestitura (“clothing”), from Latin vestitus, perfect passive participle of vesti? (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).

Noun

vesture (plural vestures)

1. A covering of, or like, clothing.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.

   • 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

     It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

Verb

vesture (third-person singular simple present vestures, present participle vesturing, simple past and past participle vestured)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

Related terms

• invest
• vest
• vestibule
• vestment

Anagrams

• revestu, versute, vertues