sol-fa, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sol-fa n.

[SE sol-fa man, a music teacher; thus f. the clerk’s leading of the sung responses in church]

a parish clerk.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.