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Clothing vs Vestiary - What's the difference?

clothing | vestiary |

As nouns the difference between clothing and vestiary

is that clothing is any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion while vestiary is a dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.

As a verb clothing

is .

As an adjective vestiary is

pertaining to clothes or clothing.

clothing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
  • * Milton
  • From others he shall stand in need of nothing, / Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing .
  • An act or instance of putting clothes on.
  • The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
  • (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
  • * Ray
  • Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing .
  • A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
  • (Knight)
    Hyponyms
    * See also

    See also

    (clothing related terms) * belt * bra * briefs * blouse * cap * coat * clothe * dress * gloves * halter * hat * jacket * mittens * muffler * pants * shirt * shoes * shorts * socks * sox * stocking * swimsuit * tie * tuxedo * underwear

    vestiary

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) vestiarie, from (etyl) vestiarium, from .

    Noun

    (vestiaries)
  • A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
  • *1829 , Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein :
  • *:Here a novice appeared from the vestiary of the chapel at his call, and received commands to enquire at the hamlet whether Philipson's bales, with the horse which transported them, had been left there, or ferried over along with his son.
  • *1998 , Catherine M Odell, Faustina , p. 75:
  • *:They often had her return to the vestiary for different items two or three times before they were satisfied with what she brought them.
  • Synonyms
    * (dressing room in a church) vestry, sacristy

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) vestiarius, from (vestis) as Etymology 1, above.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to clothes or clothing.
  • *1981 , Harold Osborne, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art :
  • *:In 1964 she initiated ‘vestiary ’ sculpture made of soft materials and designed to be worn by the spectators [...].
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 39:
  • The Professor was left to stare into the depths of his ancient hat, as if it were a vestiary expression of his present situation.
    Synonyms
    * (pertaining to clothing) (l)