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ˈvestuary Now arch.
[ad. OF. vestuaire (= Pr. and Cat. vestuari, Sp. and Pg. vestuario), or med.L. vestuarium, f. vestura vesture n. Cf. vestiary n.]
A vestiary or vestry; a wardrobe. Also transf.
c1490Caxton Rule St. Benet 136 Whan in þe chirche he shall doo of his seculer arraye and be cladde with the habite of the place; those [clothes] that he puttyth off shall be kept in the vestuary. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 449 Some..small bones wrapped up in fine silke of fresh colour, which the Abbot tooke for the reliques of some Saints, and laied uppe in his Vestuary. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. xxxii. 368 The trappings of men's outward existence..must be laid aside in the vestuary of the grave. |