a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to vesture or clothing; vestiary.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. i. How, then, comes it … that the grand Tissue of all Tissues … should have been quite overlooked by Science,—the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth?
1883. Times, 13 Nov., 9/3. Each [Cavalry officer] shall spend from £400 to £500 on vestural adornments less suited to military purposes than to a masquerade.
1891. Miss Dowie, Girl in Karp., ii. 17. His vestural advantages … are what I grudge a man sole possession of.
