vestry

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman vesterie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”).

Noun

vestry (plural vestries)

1. 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.

   The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.

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

   The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.

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

Related terms

• vestryman

Translations

room in a church

• Dutch: sacristie (nl) f
• Finnish: sakaristo
• Georgian: საცავი (sacavi), სალარო (საეკლესიო) (salaro (saeḳlesio))
• Persian: رختکن (fa)
• Russian: ри́зница (ru) f (ríznica), сакристия (ru) f (sakristija)
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• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-culaidh m
• Swedish: sakristia (sv)
• Westrobothnian:

committee of parishioners

• Finnish: kirkkoneuvosto
• Georgian: მრევლის კრება (mrevlis ḳreba)
• Maori: wēteri
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• Russian: приходское управле́ние n (prixodskoje upravlénije)

See also

• churchwarden

Anagrams

• stryve