vestiary
Americanadjective
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of vestiary
1615–25; < Medieval Latin vestiārius, equivalent to vesti ( s ) ( vest ) + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Keaton’s writing, however, is not all chuckles and vestiary treatise.
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The High Mass was superb with orchestral music and the most sumptuous robes of the vestiary.
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Entering into our vestiary, they caused all the ornaments of the church to be noted down in an inventory.
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From a vestiary point of view he would seem as prosperous as in the days when he was known to, and envied by, Wandsborough and its neighbourhood as the future Squire of Cranston.
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On entering the Athen�um on this particular evening, he put his hat and coat in the vestiary and was about to order dinner, when he was accosted by Alphabet Jones.
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