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vestries
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n. (plural of vestry English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vestry \Ves"try\, n.; pl. Vestries . [OE. vestrye, F. vestiaire, L. vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a garment. See Vest , n., and cf. Vestiary .] A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils ...
Usage examples of vestries.
The vestries were ablaze, and the Girdlersâ Chapel and, above, the clerestories were pouring out bronze-colored smoke.
So I hid in one of the vestries and waited, and after a while I saw torches over by the vestry door, and the fire watch came in, going up to the roofs, and I heard one of them say, âHad we better start carrying things out of the vestries?
They went into the sanctuary and the vestries and one of them ran down and got the altar cross and the candlesticks out of the Smithsâ Chapel.
The vestries were ablaze, and the Girdlers’ Chapel and, above, the clerestories were pouring out bronze-colored smoke.
So I hid in one of the vestries and waited, and after a while I saw torches over by the vestry door, and the fire watch came in, going up to the roofs, and I heard one of them say, ‘Had we better start carrying things out of the vestries?
They went into the sanctuary and the vestries and one of them ran down and got the altar cross and the candlesticks out of the Smiths’ Chapel.