Anne sexton
anne (harvey) 1928–74, u.s. poet.
noun
a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc
another name for the burying beetle
n.
c.1300, sekesteyn, “person in charge of the sacred objects of a church,” from old french segrestien, from medieval latin sacrist-n-s (see sacristan). sense of “custodian of a church” first recorded 1580s. fem. forms s-xtress, s-xtrice are recorded 15c., but the usual form is s-xtoness (early 15c.).
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