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torchbearers
n. (plural of torchbearer English)
Usage examples of "torchbearers".
Two or three of them were carrying blazing torches, and more torchbearers were coming down the steps behind them.
By now it was dark and a band of veteran comrades, serving as torchbearers, lit firebrands until the vestibule was flaming with a ruddy glow.
As the torchbearers of her escort moved around the oval lighting torches set on brackets, she realized that the dark space was not empty.