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▸ noun: (British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
▸ noun: A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
▸ noun: Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
▸ noun: A vestment.
▸ noun: Clothing generally; array; garb.
▸ noun: (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
▸ verb: (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
▸ verb: To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
▸ verb: To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
▸ verb: (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
▸ verb: (law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
▸ verb: (financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To invest; to put.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
waistcoat,
robe,
undershirt,
enthrone,
invest,
singlet,
gilet,
jacket,
shawl waistcoat,
jerkin,
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Types:
puffer vest,
denim vest,
leather vest,
sweater vest,
down vest,
fleece vest,
quilted vest,
utility vest,
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