"scrivan" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, volume 2, page 314:",
          "text": "They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]",
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        "A clerk or writer."
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        "(obsolete) A clerk or writer."
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  "word": "scrivan"
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        "(obsolete) A clerk or writer."
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