vestryman
Americannoun
plural
vestrymennoun
Etymology
Origin of vestryman
Example Sentences
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He’d been a Columbia College trustee, a Trinity Church vestryman, president of the Philharmonic Society, co-founder of the Union League Club.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
In the years after the White House, Mr. Bush wrote his memoirs and divided his time between Houston and the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he was a vestryman of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2018
He was a former vestryman at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Washington.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2016
Shaw's opinions on municipal politics and public health at the turn of the century were formed and sharpened by his years as a vestryman and borough councillor for the St Pancras district of London.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012
He would have preferred some other person to have settled the matter for him, but, as this other person was not there and the vestryman only looked at him expectantly, he was compelled to speak.
From The Son of His Mother by Viebig, Clara
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