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parish clerk
noun
- an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
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A country parish clerk, being asked how the inscriptions on the tombs in the church-yard were so badly spelled?
A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.
I have myself talked to the parish clerk and—more important—have been to the house where he paid his visit.
This day also the parish-clerk brought the general bill of mortality, which cost me half-a-crown more.
The Queen's Counsel's full dress gown is of figured black silk, tufted all over like a parish clerk's.
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