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torch-bearer|ˈtɔːtʃˌbɛərə(r)|
One who carries a torch. Also fig.
1538Elyot, Facularii, torche bearers. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. vi. 40 Descend, for you must be my torch-bearer. 1624Bedell Lett. xi. 140 As if all that are made Priests among you were Psalmists, Sextons, Readers, Exorcists, Torch-bearers, Subdeacons, and Deacons before. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xxii, Twelve sandall'd monks, who reliques bore, With many a torch-bearer before. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxii. IV. 272 The enterprising mariners who inhabited it had been the torch-bearers of Grecian geographical discovery in the west. 1853Dale tr. Baldeschi's Ceremonial 189 The Torch-bearers having genuflected, consign their torches to the first they meet in choir.
So ˈtorch-ˌbearing n. and a.
1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. xxi. 175 There he saw torch-bearing in day-light, at mass. 1881Ruskin Bible of Amiens ii. 88 No torch-bearing maid of battle, like Clotilde. |