verger
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒə(r)
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verger (plural vergers)
- One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
- (chiefly UK) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). An usher; in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 1, chapter 14
- ‘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.’
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 1, chapter 14
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verger m (plural vergers)
