"vestiture" meaning in English

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          "text": "Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.",
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        "(rare) Investiture (of a person with a specific role, powers etc.)."
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