altar girl

American  

noun

Ecclesiastical.

1. a female altar server.

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Example Sentences

The younger victim, now 12, testified that she sang in the church choir and was an altar girl.

From Washington Post

Father Francis X. Nelson, while serving at St. Mary Star of the Sea, in Carroll Gardens, visited the home of a teen-age altar girl on the pretext of paying a pastoral call to her sick grandmother, and molested the girl.

From The New Yorker

Blackburn says the teen was an altar girl in one of Foxhoven’s parishes in the Diocese of Steubenville and Foxhoven engaged in sexual conduct with her between Aug. 17, 2018, and Oct.

From Seattle Times

Blackburn says the teen was an altar girl in one of Foxhoven’s parishes in the Diocese of Steubenville. and Foxhoven engaged in sexual conduct with her between Aug. 17, 2018, and Oct.

From Washington Times

I was taught that before the priest raises the host and wine and says, “This is my body; this is my blood,” and before the altar girl rings the bells, the host is bread, the wine is wine.

From The New Yorker