boatbearers
boatbearers is the plural of boatbearer.
Meaning of boatbearer
Noun
boatbearer (plural boatbearers)
- A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.
- He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood.1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
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- What is boatbearers the plural of?
- Boatbearers is the plural of boatbearer.
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