investiture
in ve stuh cher
- n the ceremony of installing a new monarch
- n the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- The rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven.
- Less welcome, however, is what he received on the eve of his investiture: a report effectively designating Bulgaria the most corrupt and crime-ridden member of the European Union.
- At the state reception which followed there were those who looked upon their King reproachfully, recalling words which he uttered as a boy of 16 at his investiture:.