sacristans
- plural of sacristan.
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
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
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
Presently a priest came through the door and leaned over the gallery, followed by two sacristans, one bearing a censer and the other a bell.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen
