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Noun

sacristan ‎(plural sacristans)

1. The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And hence the custom and law began

     That still at dawn the sacristan,

     Who duly pulls the heavy bell,

     Five and forty beads must tell

     Between each stroke

   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business:

     The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

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• sacrist
• sacristry
• sacristy

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• arcanists