vest
/vɛst
/- The major contributions include vests, warm undergarments, warm socks and toiletries.
- They go with everything, look good with a sun tan, can be used as vests under shirts if the weather turns cold and can be slipped on over a swimming costume if the sun gets too strong.
- Then later in the episode, she showed up wearing a denim vest.
- Not content with the attention from her show-stopping ear bling, the 25-year-old singer also wore an extremely sheer vest top.
- Throw on a fitted leather jacket or an army green cargo vest to complete your relaxed yet cool look.
- Some of the police were dressed in black fatigues; others were wearing suits underneath bullet-proof vests.
- It has not been much warmer in France than it was in Belgium and we started the first stage in leg warmers, thermal vests, gloves and hats.
- She spent the last few minutes before the race wearing an ice vest to keep her body temperature down.
- The only decent thing he wore was the sturdy red vest, almost a sleeveless jacket, with black embroidery at the neck and arm holes.
- After a couple of outfits, Sara decided on a sleeveless leather vest and a loose wrap skirt and broad belt.
- Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors.
- An Arab diplomat, going further, said Arab countries would oppose vesting any authority in the Governing Council.
- He is the rightful representative of the people of Florida and he is the chief executive, in whom the power is vested to execute the law and protect the rights of citizens.
Synonyms
- During inauguration, the president is vested with the power and authority of the office.
- Because my theory is that individuals are vested with enormous powers that tend to threaten the state.
- The civic bodies must be given the task of local distribution and could also be vested with the powers to award the local distribution contracts, provided there is a foolproof mechanism for quality control.
- It relies on Section 71 of the B.I.A. that once an assignment in bankruptcy is made, all of the bankrupt's property vests in his or her Trustee.
- Now in bankruptcy the property of a bankrupt vests in his trustee upon the making of the sequestration order.
- It was given to trustees and the property was vested in the Charity Commissioners for the benefit of Haxby people.
- We discussed the service as I vested, then waited in the sacristy for the sound of feet on the chapel floor.
- Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.
- He was fully vested, with a blue brocade chasuble over his white alb.
- But Jesus is not an ordinary king; he is vested not in fine silks and jewels but in garments of humility and suffering.
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French vestu 'clothed', past participle of vestir, from Latin vestire; the noun (early 17th century, denoting a loose outer garment) from French veste, via Italian from Latin vestis 'garment'.
invest from mid 16th century:
The root of invest is Latin vestis ‘clothes’, also the source of vest (Late Middle English), and which shares an Indo-European root with wear (Old English). Latin investire meant ‘to put clothes on someone’, and was the sense of invest when it entered English in the mid 16th century. Someone being formally installed in a job or office would once have been ceremonially dressed in special clothing, and this is behind the sense ‘to formally confer a rank or office on someone’. The main modern use of the word is financial—putting money into a commercial venture with the expectation of profit. This came into English under the influence of a related Italian word in the early 17th century, apparently through a comparison between putting money into various enterprises and dressing it in a variety of clothing.