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/vˈɛstɹi/
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NOUN
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
How To Use vestry In A Sentence
- ` I will send for a glass of water, sir, 'said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, ` the lady is fainting.' Valerie
- A system of smoke detectors is set to cover the entire cathedral including the soon to be completed new vestry and education room.
- First, he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller, an epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children: in the vestry a yeoman and two grooms, besides other retainers that came thither at principal feasts .... The Customs of Old England
- The truth was, that between Lady Price's economies, and the unwillingness to call vestry meetings, moneys intended for one purpose had been used for another, and articles not within the denomination of charities had been charged on funds raised for that exclusive object. The Pillars of the House, V1
- I read that you were the youngest vestryman in the history of your Episcopal church.
- It was only then I discovered they had, in fact, been trying to break into the vestry.
- I suppose they thought the neighbourhood of the vestry was the last place in the world where anybody would think of looking after them, but, however that may be, there they were. The Woman in White
- In the vestry press we should find an alb of fine white linen, somewhat similar to a surplice, ornamented with "apparels, English Villages
- Phyllida watched as he shut the vestry door; the curate 's face was pale and set. ALL ABOUT LOVE
- `Eduardo's right, they weren't regular soldiers," Lorenzo said, appearing at the vestry door. THE DEVIL'S DOOR