Middle English Dictionary Entry
vestiārī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vestiārī(e n. Also westiare. |
| Etymology | OF vestiaire, vestiarie & L vestiārium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. revestiarie n., vestri n.
1.
(a) The vestry of a church; also, a room or building for the storage of clothes [quots. c1450 & perh. 1447-8, 2nd];
(b) the office of the royal household responsible for the royal chapel and vestry; office of ~;
(c) an entrance, a courtyard, forecourt [translating L vestibulum].
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)415/214 : Þe bischop eode into þe vestiarie; is Cope he gan of strepe.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill69 : For a plomer on þe vestyarye…ij s. vj d.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1354 : The vestiarie to be sette oon the north syde of the saide Quere, which shal conteyne in lengthe L fete of assise departed into ij houses, and in brede xxiiij fete.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1399 : Monee assigned for…the making of the housing which shal close ynne the quadrant, xl li. The making of diuerse necessar’ and paving in the Westiare, x li.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)45/19 : I haue do mad ȝou clothis & hosyn and schon þerto an hundred and xl, whech I wil þat þei be kept in a comon vestiary.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.275 (v.2:p.53) : The preste .. went from hir into the vestiarie and fett forth a boke wherin weren coniuracions for spiritis.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Guy (LdMisc 683)440 : Thilke ex…Is yit callid ‘the ex of Colybrond,’ Kept among men of relygyoun In the vestiarie.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)126/8 : Here metis…are blissid in the vestiarie or in the quere of the preste.
b
- (1454) Proc.Privy C.6.223 : The vestiar’: j yoman, j grome.
- (1467-8) RParl.5.596b : Davy Chirke, Yoman of oure Vestiarye of oure Houshold.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)52 (1st occurrence) : Office of Vestiary, hathe in hym a sergeaunt…for to ward saufely, and oversee all suche sacred stuffe of holy churche, and other richesse longing to the chappell and vestyary.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.29.32 : Þei schull eten in þe vestyary [WB(2): porche; L vestibulo] of þe tabernacle of wyttnes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Esth.1.5 : He comaundide seuene daiys a feste to ben maad redy in þe vestiarie [WB(2): porche; Gloss.: aley; L vestibulo] of þe ȝerd.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)69a/a : Vestibulum: a porche or a vestiarye [Pep: Westre].