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vestiary en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈvɛstɪəɹi/ (UK)
- /ˈvɛs.tiˌɛɹi/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Old French vestiarie, from Latin vestiarium, from vestis (“clothing”). Doublet of vestry.
Meanings
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(countable) A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
They often had her return to the vestiary for different items two or three times before they were satisfied with what she brought them.
1998, Catherine M. Odell, Faustina, page 75:Here a novice appeared from the vestiary of the chapel at his call, and received commands to enquire at the hamlet whether Philipson's bales, with the horse which transported them, had been left there, or ferried over along with his son.
1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
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(rare, uncountable) Clothing; garments.
Forms
Relateds
vestibule · vestibulum
Synonyms
vestment · sacristy · vestry
vestiary en · ADJ · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈvɛstɪəɹi/ (UK)
- /ˈvɛs.tiˌɛɹi/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Latin vestiarius, from vestis as Etymology 1, above.
Meanings
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Pertaining to clothes or clothing.
The Professor was left to stare into the depths of his ancient hat, as if it were a vestiary expression of his present situation.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 34:Or the time, later that year, that she turned up to a presidential debate wearing a bright pink pussy-bow blouse just two days after audio had been released of her husband boasting how he likes to “grab ’em by the pussy”? The vestiary reference was, reportedly, “not intentional”.
2024 July 20, Jemima Kelly, “Melania Trump really doesn’t care, do u?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:In 1964 she initiated ‘vestiary’ sculpture made of soft materials and designed to be worn by the spectators […].
1981, Harold Osborne, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art:
Forms
Synonyms
sartorial
Translations (6)
pl ubraniowy (pertaining to clothing) · fi pukeutumis- (pertaining to clothing) · es indumentario (pertaining to clothing) · fi vaatetukseen kohdistuva (pertaining to clothing) · fi vaatetus- (pertaining to clothing) · fi vaatetukseen liittyvä (pertaining to clothing)