sacristan
IPA: sˈækrʌstæn
noun
- The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
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Examples of "sacristan" in Sentences
- The sacristan is in charge of the Chapel.
- Nowadays the sacristan is elected or appointed.
- The sacristan mumbles his disapproval before leaving.
- In 1595 he was appointed sacristan in the papal chapel.
- He is assisted by a precentor, a chancellor and a sacristan.
- There was once a sacristan here, but that was many years ago.
- The sacristan and a few old women were there, but they escaped.
- This was used as either an oratory for a chantry priest, or as a sacristan.
- Blinded, the sacristan unwittingly guides the royalists to the patriot camp.
- The library was in the care of the sacristan of the cathedral chapter of canons.
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