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boatbearer en · NOUN

Etymology

From boat + bearer.

Meanings

1. A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.
   • He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood. 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

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