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Sacristan
Sacristan meaning
The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
Synonyms of Sacristan
Example sentences (5)
Scarpia questions the Sacristan, and his suspicions are aroused further when he learns that Cavaradossi has been in the church; Scarpia mistrusts the painter, and believes him complicit in Angelotti's escape.
The elderly Sacristan enters and begins cleaning.
The Sacristan identifies a likeness between the portrait and a blonde-haired woman who has been visiting the church recently (unknown to him, it is Angelotti's sister the Marchesa).
The Sacristan mumbles his disapproval before leaving.
The sacristan's entry, accompanied by his sprightly buffo theme, lifts the mood, as does the generally light-hearted colloquy with Cavaradossi which follows after the latter's entrance.