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vestiarian, a.|vɛstɪˈɛərɪən| [f. vestiar-y + -ian.] 1. Of or relating to, concerned with, ecclesiastical vestments or their use.
1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 19 The question of the habits, or as it has since been termed the vestiarian controversy. 1866Contemp. Rev. II. 557 The ecclesiastical Adria, agitated by ritualistic and vestiarian gales, has thrown up a great heap of pamphlets. 1881Guardian 16 Feb. 232/3 We should have been well pleased had these vestiarian differences never found place amongst us. 2. Of, belonging or peculiar to, clothing or dress; vestiary. rare—1.
1854R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art (1862) 34 Whitening of the seams—a disagreeable vestiarian phenomenon produced by the surface, or best-coloured portion, of the cloth being rubbed off. |