vestiture

noun /ˈvɛstɪstjʊə/

1. The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.

   countable, uncountable

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

   countable, rare, uncountable

3. Clothes, clothing.

   archaic, countable, literary, uncountable

   Toward the end of the second album the photography burst into color to celebrate the vivid vestiture of her adolescent molts.

Where it comes from

From Medieval Latin vestitura, from Latin vestire.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry vestiture (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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