Verger vs Vergeress - What's the difference?
verger | vergeress |
One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
(chiefly, British) 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.
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(UK) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
A female verger.
*1910 , , "The Saint and the Goblin", Reginald in Russia :
*:‘I will appear in a vision to the vergeress who sweeps the floors.’
As nouns the difference between verger and vergeress
is that verger is one who carries a verge, or emblem of office while vergeress is a female verger.verger
English
(wikipedia verger)Noun
(en noun)- ‘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.’
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