processionist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

procession +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

processionist (plural processionists)

  1. (India) A person who marches in a procession.
    • 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy‎[1], New York: HarperPerennial, published 1994, Part Fifteen, p. 1144:
      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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