Vestry
/ˈvɛstɹi/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy.
"The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry."
- 2 a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held wordnet
- 3 A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
"The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month."
- 4 in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church wordnet
- 5 An assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
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More examples"But surely, if your supernatural theory be correct, it could work the young man evil in London as easily as in Devonshire. A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.