| 单词 | pew-opener |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspew-opener pew-opener n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > pew-opener > [noun] pew-keeper1663 pew-opener1768 pew-woman1810 pew-shutter1886 1768 J. Trusler Hogarth Moralized 30 They are..opposed by the pew-opener. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vi. 51 Seeing no beadle, or pew-opener..to direct him to a place. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 308 A cousin of his old fellow's was pew opener to the pope. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 66 What a joy it was to sit in a box pew while the gallery clock ticked and to hear the rolling 17th century English of the Prayer Book alone with the verger and the pew-opener. < as lemmas |
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