vestry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
    — The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.
  2. An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
  3. A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
    — Near-synonyms: parochial church council, PCC, parish council (ecclesiastical sense, uncommon)

词形变化

vestries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
born in the vestry select vestry vestry clerk vestrydom vestryism vestryman
相关词
churchwarden

词源

From Anglo-Norman vesterie, from Old French vestiaire (“room for vestments, dressing room”), from Latin vestiarium (“wardrobe”). Doublet of vestiary.
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