- 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. - A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage
parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. - A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually
by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
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