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scrivans

scrivans is the plural of scrivan.

Meaning of scrivan

Noun

scrivan (plural scrivans)

  1. (obsolete) A clerk or writer.
    • They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red...

Questions about scrivans

What is scrivans the plural of?
Scrivans is the plural of scrivan.

Words near scrivans in the dictionary

  1. scritoires
  2. scrivan
  3. scrivano
  4. scrivanoes
  5. scrivanos
  6. scrivans
  7. scrive
  8. scrived
  9. Scriven
  10. scrivener
  11. scrivener's palsy

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