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(noun) a person in charge of the sacristy (a room in a church where a priest prepares for a service, and where ceremonial equipment are kept)

"[...] take part in the life of the spirit as vergers or sacristans"

—p.90 One Thousand Years of Solitude (86) by George Steiner

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