Vestments
in example sentence
"I leave you, and shake the dust off my shoes, that no remnant of this wicked hole may tarnish the
vestments
of the godly."
More example sentences with word vestments
Only later would I see the dresses also as a proclamation: that in your dim kitchen, your laundry, your bleak concrete yard, what you revealed of yourself was a fabulation; your real sensual nature, veiled in those sexless vestments, was utterly your dominion.
The Bishop was wearing Roman
vestments
(and for the record not even Orthodox bishops wear their
vestments
unless they're saying the liturgy, especially if they live in a monastery).
Meanwhile the clergy put on their
vestments
and the priest and deacon came forward to the lectern that stood near the entrance doors.
The old priest, with his sacerdotal headgear and his locks of grey hair, glistening like silver, combed back behind his ears, drew his small old hands out from beneath his
vestments
of heavy silver cloth with a large gold cross on the back, and began turning over some pages on the lectern.
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