Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to clothes.
- noun A dressing room, cloakroom, or vestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to costume or dress.
- noun A room or place for the keeping of vestments, garments, or clothes; a wardrobe.
- noun Garb; clothing.
- noun A vestibule; a place of entrance; a court.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.
- noun A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
clothes orclothing . - noun A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to clothing (especially vestments)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hurriedly she genuflected toward the golden shrine in the vestiary™s corner, then parted the curtains and stepped through.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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After, barbered, powdered and perfumed, he passed to his vestiary, where still more acolytes helped him into his ceremonial raiment: robes of Lattakayan satin, be-jeweled breastplate, rings and slippers, and the sapphire tiara that had graced the brow of every Kingpriest since the end of the Three Thrones™ War.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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It wasn™t Ilista™s habit to arrive late to the imperial court, and the First Daughter could hear the buzz of voices as she dressed in her private vestiary.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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They moved from vestiary to antechamber, copy room to meditation hall, breaking down doors when they found them locked.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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I hung it in the vestiary and waved goodbye to Henry, who was standing on the chancel steps.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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Host is carried in solemn procession through the principal streets, attended by the high officers of state, several battalions of each arm of the service in fresh bright uniforms, and a vast array of ecclesiastics in the most gorgeous stoles and chasubles their vestiary contains.
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
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In these little boxes -- of which the rent is that of a palace -- one would be foolish to look for the space of a vestiary.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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So he went into the vestiary where the garments were kept and doffing his dress donned a garb which converted him into a Darwaysh.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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New taxes, sumptuary taxes, vestiary taxes; _nemo audeat comedere praeter duo fercula cum potagio_; tax on the living, tax on the dead, tax on successions, tax on carriages, tax on paper.
Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843
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