pew-opener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historically, a church attendant who opened enclosed or reserved pews and showed worshippers to their seats

   The pew-opener told the rector that Miss Prism was waiting in the vestry.

A transparent compound of pew + opener. The occupational name arose in churches where an attendant opened the doors of enclosed or reserved pews and conducted members of the congregation to their seats.

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