Read full poem →Would pay in cities for good trees like those,
Regular vestry-trees whole Sunday Schools
Could hang enough on to pick off enough.
Dictionary Entry
A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy.
In a Sentence
“The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. vestrymeeting vestryminutes vestrybook vestryvestry selectvestry parishvestry church
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Poetry examples for “vestry”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.