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vestry-room Also vestry room. [f. vestry1.] The vestry of a church; the room in which a parochial vestry assembles.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4721/4 The Vestry-Room of the Parish Church of Lambeth was broke open. 1745Viner Abridgm. Law & Equity XXI. 549 His proper Remedy for the Injury done by the Defendant, by hindring him to come into the Vestry-room. 1810W. Wilson Hist. Dissent. Ch. III. 224 He opened a day-school, in the vestry-room of his meeting. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 227/1 It comprehends a nave,..and a chantry, now used as a vestry-room. 1891‘S. Mostyn’ Curatica 136, I thought I should have seen you in the vestry-room. attrib.1838Dickens O. Twist v, The clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire. |