vestock
English
Etymology
Blend of vest + stock
Noun
vestock (plural vestocks)
- A long clerical stock (piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar) that reaches the waist.
- 2017, George Pitcher, A Dark Nativity
- 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