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verger

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verger Chiefly Church of England
1. a church official who acts as caretaker and attendant, looking after the interior of a church and often the vestments and church furnishings
2. an official who carries the verge or rod of office before a bishop, dean, or other dignitary in ceremonies and processions


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He ran up the steps, entered the church, and addressing a verger who was sweeping the chapel, asked him if he knew Monsieur Bazin.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Tope, Chief Verger and Showman, and accustomed to be high with excursion parties, declines with a silent loftiness to perceive that any suggestion has been tendered to him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
We have often seen each other,' said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, 'when I have been at church here.
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