sacristan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.

   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

From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. Doublet of sexton.

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