vestment

  • 131invest — [16] The etymological notion underlying invest is of ‘putting on clothes’. It comes via Old French investir from Latin investīre, a compound verb formed from the prefix in and vestis ‘clothes’ (source of English vest, vestment, travesty, etc). It …

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  • 132travesty — [17] Travesty and transvestite [20] are first cousins. Both are compounded of the Latin elements trāns ‘across’ and vestīre ‘clothe’ (source of English vest, vestment, etc), but they are separate formations. Travesty comes ultimately from Italian …

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