processionist
nounEtymology From procession + -ist.
1
India A person who marches in a procession.
- And here also, just outside the Imambara, near the wayside shrine of a local saint, was a busy fair—where the mourning of the processionists intermingled with the festive excitement of people buying or selling knick-knacks and holy pictures […]1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, New York: HarperPerennial, published 1994, Part Fifteen, p. 1144: