vestry
/ˈvɛstɹi/ 名词 C2中文： 祭衣室、教区委员会
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes. · The choirboys change into their cassocks in the vestry.
- An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish. · The vestry meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
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She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing.”
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