bedesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A medieval underling writing to his superior often signs himself "your servant and bedesman."
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
They take field after field, house after house; turn the farmer into the beggar, and the beggar into their bedesman.
From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh
The old bedesman delighted “to daunder down the burnsides and green shaws.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
A tankard of hot ale will chase away omens, whether of bishop or bedesman.’
From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The ancient bedesman was hurt, and possibly, had he been a younger man, he would have hurt this scoffer in return.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.
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