bedesman
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English
Noun
bedesman (plural bedesmen)
- Obsolete form of beadsman.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
- […] the place of warden in Hiram's hospital was again to be filled up, and he would once more return to […] his twelve bedesmen.
References
- “bedesman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.