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▪ I. vestiary, n.|ˈvɛstɪərɪ|
Forms: 3–6 vestiarie, 4 vestiare, 5 vestyarye, -iarye, 5– vestiary.
[a. OF. vestiarie, vestiaire, vestyaire, etc. (mod.F. vestiaire, = Pr. vestiari, Pg. and It. vestiario), or ad. L. vestiārium clothes-chest, wardrobe, neut. sing. of vestiārius adj., f. vesti-s clothing, vesture. Cf. vestuary.]
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1. A vestry of a church. Now rare or Obs.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 455 A lodlich cloth he bouȝhte for fif panes; to þe bischope he gan it bringue. Þe bischop eode into þe vestiarie; is Cope he gan of strepe. 1427–8Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 69 For a plomer on þe vestyarye. 1448Hen. VI Will in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 354 The vestiarie to be sette oon the north syde of the saide Quere. 1503in Blyth Hist. Notices & Rec. Fincham (1863) 57 My bodye to be beryed in the vestiary of Sent Martyns Chirche. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 57 b, The Church, the pulpite, the vestiarie, the chauncell. 1668T. Smith in Phil. Trans. (1697) XIX. 604 Toward one end of the English Church, just by the Vestiary. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Vestiary, a Vestry or Dressing-Room. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 212 And monie ane that day did herrie Braw spulyie frae the vestiary. 1841Gresley For. Arden (1842) 61 The service being at length finished,..he returned to the Vestiary. 1866Mrs. R. T. Ritchie Village on Cliff xvii, The curé..walked through his wild overgrown wilderness to the vestiary.
b. A room or building, esp. one in a monastery or other large establishment, in which clothes are kept. Also, a cloak-room (quot. 1893).
c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Aug. 45, I haue do mad ȝou clothis & hosyn and schon..whech I wil þat þei be kept in a comon vestiary, þat euery man may haue part as him nedith. 1467–8Rolls of Parlt. V. 596/2 Davy Chirke, Yoman of oure Vestiarye of oure Houshold. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vestiary, a place in a Monastery, where the Monks Cloaths are laid up; the Friers Wardrobe. 1860Ainsworth Ovingdean Grange 157 The room..being used, at the present day, as a vestiary. 1862Sir H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve ii. i, Go to the vestiary, wherein thou'lt find Provision of all garbs for the masqued ball. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds II. 161 ‘All right,’ said Granton,..turning to the vestiary for his light overcoat.
†c. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1656Blount Glossogr. (copying Cooper), Vestiary,..a Wardrobe, Press, or Chest, where apparel is laid. [Hence in Phillips, and recent Dicts.]
†2. = vestibule 1. Cf. vestry 1 b. Obs. rare.
1382Wyclif Exod. xxxv. 17 The tentis in the ȝatis of the vestiarie [L. in foribus vestibuli]. 1382― 2 Sam. xvii. 18 Thei wenten in a swift paase in the hows of a maner man in Bahurym, that hadde a pit in his vestiarye.
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3. Clothes, dress, garments. rare—1.
1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 467/1 Thy versicoloured and cloudlike vestiary, puffed and effuse, rustling and rolling.
▪ II. vestiary, a.|ˈvɛstɪərɪ|
[ad. L. vestiāri-us: see prec. and -ary1. Cf. obs. F. vestiaire (Littré).]
Of, pertaining or relating to, clothes or dress.
1622E. Misselden Free Trade (ed. 2) 109 The Superfluity of other Commodities may bee restrained by lawes Vestiary and Sumptuary. 1648Bp. Hall Select Th. §93. 271 Some are for manuary trades,..another for Vestiary services. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 346 The soul may remain the same, but a new body is actually given to it by the interposition of vestiary talent. 1866R. Chambers Ess. Ser. ii. 113 A collection of vestiary curiosities. 1870W. R. Greg Polit. Problems 167 Some vestiary materials have become more abundant and lower in price. 1891H. Lynch G. Meredith 78 We learn of vestiary elegances, and temper. |