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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

altar boy

/ôl'-tẽr boi/ · al·tar boy · IPA
01 n. a boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called acolyte.
  1. 1.
    a boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called acolyte. Also: acolyte