Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person who presided as king over the Twelfth-night festivities.
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For the last time under the reign of this monarch one of these ceremonies was that a cake should be offered to the assembled guests, in which a bean had been concealed, and whoever found that he had taken the piece containing the bean was called the bean-king, and had to choose a queen.
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