Now arch. [ad. OF. vestuaire (= Pr. and Cat. vestuari, Sp. and Pg. vestuario), or med.L. vestuarium, f. vestura VESTURE sb. Cf. VESTIARY sb.] A vestiary or vestry; a wardrobe. Also transf.
c. 1490. Caxton, Rule St. Benet, 136. Whan in þe chirche he shall doo of his seculer arraye and be cladde with the habite of the place; those [clothes] that he puttyth off shall be kept in the vestuary.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 449. Some … small bones wrapped up in fine silke of fresh colour, which the Abbot tooke for the reliques of some Saints, and laied uppe in his Vestuary.
1860. Trench, Serm. Westm. Abb., xxxii. 368. The trappings of men’s outward existence … must be laid aside in the vestuary of the grave.
