vestry.
A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
Meaning & usage
A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.
An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
Where this word comes from
From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.
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