What's the difference between vestiary and vestry?

Vestiary


Definition:

  • (n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
  • (a.) Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

Example Sentences:

Vestry


Definition:

  • (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
  • (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
  • (n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As previously described with other fluoroquinolones (D. Raoult, M. Drancourt, and G. Vestris, Antimicrob.
  • (2) We used the shell-vial technique (D. Raoult, G. Vestris, and M. Enea, J. Clin.
  • (3) I had written other parts of the book in some uncomfortable places: the cold cobwebbed vestry of my parents'-in-law's local church, to which my mother-in-law had the key; the attic of another, earlier house whose stairs were so narrow for my increasingly pregnant body that it seemed possible I might one day get permanently stuck up there.
  • (4) They charged their mobile phones there and we were taking hot water over to the vestry and to people's flats, people who had young children.
  • (5) The ancient church has a 19th-century vestry whose walls are lined from floor to ceiling with thousands of cockle shells, the pilgrim emblem of St James.

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