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Noun(1) gown (especially ceremonial garments(2) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy

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(1) In the past few weeks, Emily Dickinson has been asked to don her Sunday bests, the vestments of public decorum.(2) With a sigh, the High-Elf sat on a log, shifting her attention from the moon to her clerical vestments .(3) What is the role of lighting in the display of the colors of vestments or robes?(4) The angels are dressed in priests' vestments to emphasise this link with the Eucharist.(5) This holiday celebration began in the morning, with clergy clad in white vestments and a choir singing Gregorian chant.(6) The liturgical vestments worn by the priest also indicate this.(7) So the whole ritual is a sublimated performance in glittering vestments and ceremonial gestures which transform everydayness into a quasi-encounter with the otherworldly.(8) Indeed there was more incense and ornate vestments than I have seen in a Catholic service for some time.(9) Peg was gifted with her hands and made numerous vestments for the clergy through her association with the Apostolic Workers.(10) One of the other threads (comparing orthodox medicine/psychiatric techniques to magickal ones) got me thinking about the role of clothing: uniforms, robes, ceremonial vestments , whatever.(11) They would gratefully spend time during the week preparing a homily, then go down the street Sunday morning, put on some vestments and say Mass in their own parish communities.(12) Now the Pope had reached the elevated altar, his green vestments reflecting the Irishness of the occasion.(13) Next week, we're due to discuss the different seasons of the church year, and are going touch upon the different colours of vestments worn at different times throughout the year.(14) The vestments of the high priest were bejewelled and adorned with colors that literally mapped the world.(15) But rather than represent anonymous bodies, the artist presents us with bodies that are adorned with the symbols of power, bishop's mitres, priestly vestments , and gentlemen's robes.(16) The cardinal who's just been elected pope goes there to put on the vestments he'll wear when he appears to the crowd waiting below in St. Peter's Square.