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Definition of sacristy
sacristies
: a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept and where the clergy vests
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Examples of sacristy in a Sentence
our choir robes were stored in the sacristy
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Some lady, a church worker in a floral dress, was moving cardboard boxes from the altar to the sacristy.
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Layton argued that a decision in favor of the church would open a Pandora's sacristy of demands by religious organizations on the public purse.
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If anybody can dispel the cobwebs and vapors that have collected in the Plath sacristy, Dakota and Dunst can (fingers crossed).
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Origin and Etymology of sacristy
Middle English sacristie, from Medieval Latin sacristia, from sacrista sacristan, from Latin sacr-, sacer
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