different between vesture vs finery

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n??i/

Noun

finery (countable and uncountable, plural fineries)

1. (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
2. (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
3. (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

Related terms

• fine

Translations

See also

• (charcoal hearth): refinery