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Parison vs Parson - What's the difference?

parison | parson |

As nouns the difference between parison and parson

is that parison is (glassblowing) a spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace while parson is an anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.

parison

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 278:
    • The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.

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    parson

    English

    (wikipedia parson)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
  • A Protestant minister.

    • Derived terms

    * parsonage * parsondom

    Synonyms

    * cleric * father * minister * priest * vicar

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