vestry• The plans were to include a vestry, church parlour, toilets and classrooms and the estimatedcost was placed at £15,000.• Parishcouncils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries, which had in turn supplantedmanorcourts.• What could the vestry do, after all?• I'd thought there might be a bit of rope or some such in the vestry.• When the Mass was finished he followed the priest into the vestry.• The body was later taken into the vestry where it and the venerable head were washed and carefully dried.• They walked to the vestry to disrobe, and finally dispersed quietly.
Originvestry
(1300-1400)Old Frenchvestiarie, from Medieval Latinvestiarium, from Latinvestire; → VEST2