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vestries

vestries is the plural of vestry.

Meaning of vestry

Noun

vestry (plural vestries)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    vestiary, sacristy
  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)

Phrases with vestries

Questions about vestries

What is vestries the plural of?
Vestries is the plural of vestry.

Words near vestries in the dictionary

  1. Vestorian blue
  2. vestpocket
  3. vestra culpa
  4. vestra culpas
  5. vestral
  6. vestries
  7. vestry
  8. vestry clerk
  9. vestry clerks
  10. vestrydom
  11. vestryism

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