revestiary

English

Etymology

From Latin revestiarium: compare French revestiaire. See revest.

Noun

revestiary (plural revestiaries)

(obsolete) The apartment in a church or temple where the vestments etc. are kept.

Synonyms

vestry (the modern form)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “revestiary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)