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plural sacristans
The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains. quotations examples
And hence the custom and law beganThat still at dawn the sacristan,Who duly pulls the heavy bell,Five and forty beads must tellBetween each stroke
1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […]
[…] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 32
The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business