Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A domestic chaplain.
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Examples
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V. somewhere in the backwoods (this, too, was his whim, and they have to be content with it) is a low-bred trencher-chaplain, by name Silk.
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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