bedesman
Britishnoun
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"If that ain't our Joe a-going past!" exclaimed the bedesman.
From The Channings by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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 Nuttall, P. Austin
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
Mr. Jenkins awoke, with others, and got up—not Jenkins the old bedesman, but his son Joseph, who had the grey mare for his wife.
From The Channings by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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