clothes Copy link Outline 1. vestis, is, f. (also including all kinds of drapery)2. vestītus, ūs (only used of clothing3. vestīmentum (any single article of dress4. ămictus, ūs (outer clothing)5. vēlāmen, ĭnis, n. (strictly, a covering • clothes, clothing: 1. vestis, is, f. (also including all kinds of drapery): to strip the fallen of their c., jacentes veste spoliare, Nep.: Cic.: v. dress. 2. vestītus, ūs (only used of clothing: whether lit. or fig.): woman's c., v. muliebris, Cic.: one's necessary c., necessarius v., Cic.: the verdant clothing of the banks, riparum v. viridis, Cic. 3. vestīmentum (any single article of dress: hence, in pl. clothing in general): to change one's c., vestimenta mutare, Cic. (which must be carefully distinguished from vestitum mutare, to go into mourning): Hor. 4. ămictus, ūs (outer clothing): v. dress. 5. vēlāmen, ĭnis, n. (strictly, a covering: poet.): Virg.: Ov. Special terms and phr.: cast off c.s, exŭviae, Pl.: old c.s, scrūta, orum, Lucil. ap. Gell.; and hence, an old c.s-man, scrūtārius, ib.; the business of such, scrutaria, Apul.: an old c.s-shop, scrutarium, Gloss.: a c.s-chest, arca vestiaria, Cato: a c.s-press, vestiarium, Plin.: a dealer in c.s, vestiarius, Ulp.: bed-c.s, strāgŭla vestis, or simply strāgŭlum, Cic.: v. also coverlet: a servant whose business it is to look after c.s, vestispex, fem. vestispĭca, Inscr.; also servus a veste or ad vestem: Inscr. (Forc. s. v.): a full suit of c.s, synthĕsis, is, f.: Mart.
CLOTHES Copy link • CLOTHESvestes: vestimenta: tegumenta corporis. [Vid. DRESS, GARMENT.] To change one’s clothes, vestimenta mutare. To be fond of fine clothes, nimio in dulgere vestitui; vestes emere sumtuosius (after Plin. Ep., 9, 12. init.). PROV. Clothes make the man, homo ex veste, aut ex conditione, quae vestis nobis cireum data est, vulgo aestimatur (after Sen., Ep., 47, 14). The expense of one’s clothes, sumtus vestium. The servant who looks after one’s clothes, vestispex (Inscript.: feminine, vestispica): capsarius (the slave who looked after his master’s clothes while he bathed). Old fashioned clothes, vestitus obsoletus. To send one’s clothes to the wash, vesteslavandas dare: dirty or foul clothes, *lintea sordida. To male clothes, vestes conficere: to mend or patch them, resarcire: to put them on [Vid: To CLOTHE]: to take them off, exuere (of clothes that are drawn on), ponere, deponere (of clothes that are flung round one; e.g., ponere tunicam, Cic.): to leave off clothes, vestes abjicere, rejicere, deponere: to tear clothes, vestes discindere: to take, pull, or strip a man’s clothes off, vestes alicui detrahere: to buy new clothes, novam sibi parare vestem. A full suit of clothes, synthesis (Scaevola, Dig., 34, 2, 38: Mart., 2, 46, 4): plenus, justus vestitus (Kraft). Clothes-brush, peniculus or penicillius. OBS., the ancients used for this purpose eithir cauda bubula (a cow’s tail for brushiug off the dust), or erinacei cutis (the skin of a hedge-hog for making them smooth). Clothes-press, armarium noi scrinium), the ancients kept them either in a chest, arca vestiaria, or in a room or closet for the purpose. vestiarium. Bed-clothes, vestimenta stragula, or from contaxt stragula only (stragulum was under the sleeper, opertorium above him, Sen.).