Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The apartment in a church or temple in which the ecclesiastical vestments are kept. Compare
vestry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into
vestry .
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- noun obsolete The apartment in a
church ortemple where thevestments etc. are kept.
Etymologies
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Latin revestiarium: compare French revestiaire. See revest.
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Examples
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When he was secretly in the revestiary he had no chair, ne no man never saw him in the church sit, but in his cell he sat upon a threefoot stool.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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“Nay,” said the Abbot, “we will do more, and will instantly despatch a servant express to the keeper of our revestiary to send us such things as he may want, even this night.
The Monastery 2008
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"Nay," said the Abbot, "we will do more, and will instantly despatch a servant express to the keeper of our revestiary to send us such things as he may want, even this night.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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