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Clothing so serious it requires theology, a budget, and centuries of color-coded mood.
means A vestment is a ceremonial garment, especially one worn by clergy during religious services.
from From Latin vestimentum, 'clothing,' from vestire, 'to clothe' — the same root that dresses 'vest,' 'invest,' and 'travesty' (literally 'cross-dressing'). It reached English through Old French vestement. The idea of 'investing' someone with office comes from the literal act of robing them in the garments of their station — to clothe was to empower.
- color calendar
- Purple for penance, red for martyrs, green for ordinary days
- gold thread
- Some are literally woven with real gold wire
- word origin
- From Latin vestimentum, meaning simply garment
- layered up
- A priest may wear five distinct pieces at once
- finance steal
- Stock vesting borrowed the term for ownership clothing you
chasuble of charlemagne — 9th-century silk liturgical garment in the vatican museums, one of christianity's oldest preserved vestments
kente cloth stole — ghanaian woven vestment adopted by some african american churches since the 1960s for religious ceremonies