vestry-room
Also vestry room.
[f. vestry1.]
The vestry of a church; the room in which a parochial vestry assembles.
| 1710 Lond. Gaz. No. 4721/4 The Vestry-Room of the Parish Church of Lambeth was broke open. 1745 Viner Abridgm. Law & Equity XXI. 549 His proper Remedy for the Injury done by the Defendant, by hindring him to come into the Vestry-room. 1810 W. Wilson Hist. Dissent. Ch. III. 224 He opened a day-school, in the vestry-room of his meeting. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 227/1 It comprehends a nave,..and a chantry, now used as a vestry-room. 1891 ‘S. Mostyn’ Curatica 136, I thought I should have seen you in the vestry-room. |
| attrib. 1838 Dickens O. Twist v, The clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire. |