Vestments
in example sentence
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).
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.
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.
He looked wearily and sadly at the bride and bridegroom, sighed, and disengaging his right hand from the vestments, held it up in blessing over the bridegroom, and then over the bride; only in his manner when he placed his fingers on Kitty's bowed head there was a shade of tenderness.
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