Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A room in a church housing the sacred vessels and vestments; a vestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apartment in or a building connected with a church or monastery, in which the sacred utensils are kept and the vestments used by the officiating clergymen or priests are deposited; the vestry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
room in achurch where sacred vessels, books,vestments , etc. are kept. Sometimes also used byclergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the sacristy is a horrid and appropriate image of the bad thief.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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A sacristy is a room where sacred vessels and vestments are kept.
Va. seminary fire ruled accidental Washington Post Editors 2010
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ALLEN: Well, he is in a room called the sacristy, which is, if you like, the prep room for priests before the mass.
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The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life.
The Art of Replicating Masterpieces Nicole Martinelli 2010
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The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life.
The Art of Replicating Masterpieces Nicole Martinelli 2010
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The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life.
The Art of Replicating Masterpieces Nicole Martinelli 2010
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GRACE: That mannequin representing 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, a nun, one of the most defenseless and innocent among us, murdered in the sacristy, which is a little room off of the altar.
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Gilded wooden candlesticks are brought out from behind some altar or secret cupboard; a shabby, painted image of the Virgin or some other saint is produced from the sacristy, which is hastily draped in gorgeous finery, a necklace of beads adjusted round its neck; artificial flowers dusted and arranged in gay-looking vases; the candles are then lighted, and -- up goes the curtain!
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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The sacristy was a jumble of prayer books, vestments, broken rosaries, crucifixes, and pictures.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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The old sacristy, which is full of him -- for indeed all the decorative work seems to be his -- is one of the first buildings of the Renaissance, the beautiful work of Filippo Brunelleschi.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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