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vestry🔊

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.

📑 Synonyms: vestiary sacristy
💬 Quotations
The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.

A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.

An assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.

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