Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who rents or owns a pew in a church.
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Examples
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In 1774, he married Albany native and Dutch church pewholder Sarah Fryer.
Willett of the Day: Edward S. Willett, merchant ewillett 2008
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The best-paying pewholder in the Reverend Samuel Reynolds 'church was a Mr. Craunch, whose picture had been made by the joint efforts of the strolling artist Warmell and young Reynolds.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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The best-paying pewholder in the Reverend Samuel Reynolds 'church was a
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Elbert Hubbard 1885
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As these pews were either oblong or square, were both large and small, painted and unpainted, and as each pewholder could exercise his own "tast or disresing" in the kind of wood he used in the formation of his pew, as well as in the style of finish, much diversity and incongruity of course resulted.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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In 1819 the tenant was a person named McKechnie, as to whom I have been unable to glean any information whatever beyond the bare fact that he was a pewholder in St. James's church.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864
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