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See also: vetu and větu

French

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...un pauvre vêtu de sinople... (...a pauper clothed vert...)
Orville : de gueules au créquier arraché d'or vêtu d'argent. (Gules, a créquier or, "vested" argent.)

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French and Old French vestu.

Pronunciation

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Participle

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vêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)

  1. past participle of vêtir

Adjective

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vêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)

  1. dressed
  2. (heraldry, of a person) clothed (in a specified tincture)
    • 1867, Louis Pierre d' Hozier, Armorial général des registres de la noblesse de France, résumé et précédé d'une notice sur la famille d'Hozier, ... par E. de Barthélemy, page 39:
      Armes : De gueules, à un saint Michel de carnation, vêtu d’argent à la romaine,  []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (heraldry, of a field) covered with a vêtement (four triangles of a specified tincture which cover the corner of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field in the middle)

Further reading

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Anagrams

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