churchwarden

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.

   “At first, not knowing any better, I used sometimes to copy a nude on the pavement. The first I did was outside St Martin's-in-the-Fields church. A fellow in black—I suppose he was a churchwarden or something—came out in a tearing rage.”

2. isim A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.
3. isim Ellipsis of churchwarden pipe.

   “In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.”