vestry
noun/ˈvestri/
/ˈvestri/
(plural vestries)
- a room in a church where a priest prepares for a service by putting on special clothes and where various objects used in worship are kept synonym sacristyWord Originlate Middle English: probably from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French vestiarie, from Latin vestiarium.
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