Vestry

['vestrɪ] or ['vɛstri]

解释:

(noun.) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held.

(noun.) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church.

录入:昆西--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

英格拉姆编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. Sacristry, vestry-room.

校对:塔玛拉

解释:

n. a room adjoining a church in which the vestments are kept and parochial meetings held any small room attached to a church: in English parishes a meeting of the ratepayers to elect parish officers to assess church-rates and to manage the property of the parish the incumbent acting as chairman.—adj. Ves′tral.—ns. Ves′try-clerk an officer chosen by the vestry who keeps the parish accounts and books; Ves′tryman a member of a vestry.—Select vestry a board consisting of representatives of the ratepayers as opposed to the common vestry or assembly of all the ratepayers.

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