Processionist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who marches in a procession. India

    "And here also, just outside the Imambara, near the wayside shrine of a local saint, was a busy fair—where the mourning of the processionists intermingled with the festive excitement of people buying or selling knick-knacks and holy pictures […]"

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"And here also, just outside the Imambara, near the wayside shrine of a local saint, was a busy fair—where the mourning of the processionists intermingled with the festive excitement of people buying or selling knick-knacks and holy pictures […]"

Etymology

From procession + -ist.

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