Translation for "sakristan" to english

Sakristan

noun

• sacristan

Translation examples

sacristan noun

Um ihn von den unbarmherzigen Prügeln seines Vaters zu bewahren, brachte sie ihn in die Pfarrei, wo er dem Sakristan helfen sollte. Sie hoffte, daß seine weibliche Sanftheit zwischen Meßgewändern und Weihrauchop-fern nicht auffallen würde.
To save him from his father’s merciless floggings, she took him to the parish priest to enroll him as an assistant to the sacristan, hoping to disguise his womanly gentleness among the skirts of the mass and offerings of incense.

Sein Diener kannte seine Gewohnheiten haargenau, er bereitete schon am frühen Morgen den Anzug, die Schuhe, die Krawatte vor, mit der Sorgfalt eines Sakristans, und mein Vater, der bestimmt nicht eitel war und wenig auf sein Äußeres hielt, begann eines Tages pedantisch darauf zu achten, daß seine würdige Altherrengewandung makellos sei, kein Staubkörnchen auf der Jacke, keine Falte in der Hose, kein Fleck auf Hemd oder Kragen, kein abgewetzter Rand an der Krawatte.
His servant knew his habits to a T and by dawn had prepared his suit, his shoes, and his tie as if he were a sacristan. It was all because my father—by no means a vain man and never too particular about his appearance before—resolved to be dignified in his old age and, from that moment on, decided to pay minute attention to his clothes, with not a speck of dust on his sleeve, not one unwonted crease in his trousers, not one stain or crinkle on his shirt or his collar, his tie perfectly knotted … yes, just like a priest dressed for mass, as careful as that.