bellman

Rest assured, the bellman is not sticking a cotton tip up your nose.
The latest hotel amenity doesn’t involve massages or cookies: It’s a free coronavirus test.|Andrea Sachs|March 12, 2021|Washington Post
They were a very old family with whom Snecky Hobart, the bellman, lodged.
Auld Licht Idylls|J. M. Barrie
Trump was a game played with cards, as will appear by the following passage of Dekker's "Bellman of London," 1608, sig.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3|Various
I can't send a bellman about, to cry aloud and proclaim in the streets what you are pleased to call my heroism.
North and South|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The three signing their names are probably what we called bellman and beemen, collector, and heads of the swarm-enthusiasts.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete|George Meredith
In a very little while I was again walking by the Bellman House, completely togged out in new apparel from head to heel.
Tramping on Life|Harry Kemp

British Dictionary definitions for bellman

bellman

/ (ˈbɛlmən) /

noun plural -men

a man who rings a bell, esp (formerly) a town crier

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