sacristan
noun
an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
sacristans
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pluralof sacristan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Surfers, sitting on the edge of the break, were like "Phrygian sacristans."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2018
Black people - the free and enslaved - worshipped alongside whites in Bethlehem and Nazareth, where they were sacristans or held other church duties and shared the Moravians’ regimented lifestyle.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2015
Are Spain's majestic cathedrals filled with "gabbling priests, rowdy acolytes, grubby vestments, candles drunkenly reeling and raining grease on all around, flowers faded or dead, statues thick with dust, sacristans spitting on the floor?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Three priests among them were released, but the police held fast to several retired military officers, two Cathedral sacristans, some lay brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inferior officers of the temple fulfilled their functions doubtless with the irreligious vulgarity of the sacristans of all ages.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
