Sacristan
Origin
French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. See sacred, and compare sexton.
Full definition of sacristan
Noun
sacristan
(plural sacristans)- The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, And hence the custom and law beganThat still at dawn the sacristan,Who duly pulls the heavy bell,Five and forty beads must tellBetween each stroke
- 1932, w, Friday's Business Chapter 10, The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.