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annie sexton

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[sek-stuhn]
–noun
Anne (Harvey), 1928–74, U.S. poet.
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sexton 
c.1303, sekesteyn, "person in charge of the sacred objects of a church," from O.Fr. segrestien, from M.L. sacristanus (see sacristan). Sense of "custodian of a church" first recorded 1582.
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