Verger

Quick meaning: Verger is a noun meaning One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.

Meaning

One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
2. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Christianity) An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide.
3. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Christianity) 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). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.

Example Sentences

As soon as we were all in the night the verger rolled shut the doors and blotted out the chandeliers.

"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."

When she came to her place she opened the book, and perused it, and saw the pictures, but frowned and blushed; and then shut it, (of which several took notice,) and calling the verger, bade him bring her the old book, wherein she was formerly wont to read.

Word Forms

• vergers

Related Words

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