| 释义 |
sextoness|ˈsɛkstənɪs|
Also 5 sexteynes, sextenesse.
[f. sexton + -ess.]
A female sexton (or sacristan).
c1420Chron. Vilod. 2843 Þe sexstenes rong þe belles þo alle abouȝte. c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 306 The sexteynes schal ordeyne be fore the profession the bere with fayre newe erthe,..and thys bere sche schal sette forthe at the dore. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xl. 121 Þe nunne, þe sextenesse, rang to mateyns. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 117 He..even dug a grave for the sextoness, an old woman of eighty. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Sir Rupert, It reach'd such a pass That the sextoness hasten'd to turn on the gas. 1888Burgon Lives Twelve Gd. Men I. iv. 397 Rebecca (the dear old sextoness of S. Mary's). |