bedesman
Britishnoun
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"Jenkins," he called out to the old bedesman, who had been blowing for him, "you may go to your dinner; I shan't want you any more now."
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
This was John Bunce, bedesman from Hiram's Hospital,—and none perhaps there had known Mr. Harding better than he had known him.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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
A medieval underling writing to his superior often signs himself "your servant and bedesman."
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
"If that ain't our Joe a-going past!" exclaimed the bedesman.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
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