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sacristy
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synonyms: vestry ???
tags: [architecture] [christianity]
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Definition:a church room for storing clerical vestments and for meetings
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Just then, Bobby Bracken glided into the sacristy, a cassock, encased in a plastic cleaning bag, slung over his shoulder.
John R. Powers. The Last Catholic in America. p.155 (1973)
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All cathedrals and nearly all churches were cross-shaped. The cross was the single most important symbol of Christianity, of course, but there was a practical reason too: the transepts provided useful space for extra chapels and offices such as the sacristy and the vestry.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.294 (1990)
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the lessons were so short and irregular that they could not be of much use. They were given at spare moments in the sacristy, standing up, hurriedly, between a baptism and a burialGustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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they had drunk some of the altar wine out of the press in the sacristy
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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