bedesman
Britishnoun
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Thy faithful bedesman, one in worldly matters No prudent judge, ventures today to offer His voice to thee.
From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Alfred Hayes
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
He therefore uttered with a hasty and trembling voice—"Your lordship's honour is mistaken—I am not of your persuasion, nor a clergyman, but, with all reverence, only puir Edie Ochiltree, the king's bedesman and your honour's."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
"Really, sir, I dinna feel myself called on to remember," replied the cautious bedesman.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Blue-gown, in Scotland a beggar, a bedesman of the king, who wore a blue gown, the gift of the king, and had his license to beg.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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