[f. TAPER sb.1 + -ER1.] The bearer of a taper in a religious ceremony.
c. 1450. in Aungier, Syon (1840), 276. The taperers schal holde the tapers, turnyng westwarde, whilst the seyd herse is in sensyng. Ibid., 307. The ij taperers … schal take the two torches, and folowe the banerer al thre in surplys.
1901. W. H. St. J. Hope in Archæol. Jrnl., March, 6. The cross-bearer and taperers, followed by the censer-bearer.
1905. Daily News, 24 April, 2. Behind him comes the cross, with its attendant taperers, next the banners.
