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Clothes vs Vestiary - What's the difference?

clothes | vestiary |

As nouns the difference between clothes and vestiary

is that clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel while vestiary is a dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.

As a verb clothes

is (clothe).

As an adjective vestiary is

pertaining to clothes or clothing.

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clothe)
    • English pluralia tantum 1000 English basic words

    vestiary

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) vestiarie, from (etyl) vestiarium, from .

    Noun

    (vestiaries)
  • A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
  • *1829 , Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein :
  • *:Here a novice appeared from the vestiary of the chapel at his call, and received commands to enquire at the hamlet whether Philipson's bales, with the horse which transported them, had been left there, or ferried over along with his son.
  • *1998 , Catherine M Odell, Faustina , p. 75:
  • *:They often had her return to the vestiary for different items two or three times before they were satisfied with what she brought them.
    • Synonyms
    * (dressing room in a church) vestry, sacristy

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) vestiarius, from (vestis) as Etymology 1, above.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to clothes or clothing.
  • *1981 , Harold Osborne, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art :
  • *:In 1964 she initiated ‘vestiary ’ sculpture made of soft materials and designed to be worn by the spectators [...].
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 39:
    • The Professor was left to stare into the depths of his ancient hat, as if it were a vestiary expression of his present situation.
    Synonyms
    * (pertaining to clothing) (l)