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"Darconville and Miss Trappe hadn't gone two feet when a woman came suddenly shooting out of the side-door of the church. She looked like the wife of a manciple, frazzled with shocked eyes."
From "Darconville's Cat" a novel by Alexander Theroux
page 21

manciple (MAN-si-p'l) from Latin mancipium-buyer

a steward or buyer of provisions as for an English college or a monastery.

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