as in vestry
a room in a church building for sacred furnishings (as vestments) our choir robes were stored in the sacristy

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Recent Examples of sacristy But at the 2019 Mass, Monsignor W. Curtis Mallet, the diocese’s vicar general, pulled Broussard aside in the sacristy of St. Edward, just before the ceremony began. Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022 In Chicago, the show focuses on El Greco’s early Toledo years using the Assumption and the Trinity, the anchors of his first big success, and The Disrobing of Christ, from 1580, a midsize replica of his Disrobing of Christ from 1577–79 now in the sacristy of the cathedral in Toledo. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020 Only the original kitchen, new bathrooms and former sacristy had four walls. Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023 A decade later, their reporting was vindicated by the Argentine forensic team’s findings, which included the skeletal remains of at least a hundred and forty-three bodies in the town’s church sacristy. Peter Canby, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021 See All Example Sentences for sacristy
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vestry
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  • Russ Henry, a member of the vestry that oversees Christ Episcopal Church, told the AP that the church would like officials to be more cautious with their plan.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • My childhood was full of visits to musty vestries in Milwaukee and Memphis and Marseille, as my dad wrote traveler’s checks to various priests in his most formal handwriting.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

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“Sacristy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacristy. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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