vestock

noun

vestock

noun

Etymology Blend of vest + stock.

1

A long clerical stock (piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar) that reaches the waist.

  • Dean wore his crushed silk vestock and starched linen collar, somewhat presumptuously with a large pectoral cross, made of nails.2017, George Pitcher, A Dark Nativity:

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