vestry

• n.教会に付属する部屋；教会の法衣室；教区評議会

vestは衣服、-ryは場所の接尾辞。法衣、礼拝堂などを指す。

vestry

vestry: see vest

vestry (n.)

mid-15c., probably from Anglo-French *vesterie, from Old French vestiaire "room for vestments, dressing room" (12c.), from Latin vestarium "wardrobe," noun use of neuter of vestiarius (adj.) "of clothes," from vestis "garment" (see vest (v.)). Often also a meeting room for the transaction of parish business, and retained in non-liturgical churches as the name of a separate room used for Sunday school, prayer meetings, etc., hence transferred secular use (as in vestryman, 1610s).

1. She is active in her church，serving as a Vestry member and-chair for Grace Episcopal Church.

彼女は彼女の教会に積極的に参加し、教区委員会委員とグレース米国プロテスタント聖公会副議長を務めた。