Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See beadhouse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as beadhouse.

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  • noun Alternative form of beadhouse.

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Examples

  • For instance, a wealthy patron in the Middle Ages may have supported poor bedesmen, who had promised to pray for the patron, and may have provided a bedehouse for bedesmen or bedeswomen to live in.

    The Name of the Rosary elena maria vidal 2009

  • For instance, a wealthy patron in the Middle Ages may have supported poor bedesmen, who had promised to pray for the patron, and may have provided a bedehouse for bedesmen or bedeswomen to live in.

    Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

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