Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bedell

The Vice-chancellor's bedell (not beadle). The officer who carries the mace before the Vice-Chancellor, etc., in the universities is not a beadle but a bedell (the same word in an older form).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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