Beadle

Synonyms for "beadle" (87 found)

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Noun(2 words)
attendantceremonial officer

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Related words (43)

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Noun(2 words)

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church beadlecollege beadleparish beadleuniversity beadle

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beadle dutiesbeadle processionchurch beadlecollege beadleparish beadleuniversity beadle

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The children walking two and two in red and blue and green: Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.

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The beadle […] generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution […] The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.

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Yes, yes, begad—of course you go out with him—it’s like the country, you know; everybody goes out with everybody in the Gardens, and there are beadles, you know, and that sort of thing—everybody walks in the Temple Gardens.

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His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.

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