beadle in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The "schulklopfer" was usually a beadle, who would perform the task by wandering around the community, knocking on each household's door.
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And inside the church, according to one tradition, the beadle (church officer) allowed an illicit still to be kept in the space under the pulpit.
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On the way, he met various people -- a laborer, a shepherd, a beadle, some laundresses -- and asked whether they had seen the children.
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Henceforth, the authority of the chancellor came to be symbolized in the maces carried by his two beadles on official occasions.
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The foreground is strewn with spare bones and skulls, and behind him a beadle is about to strike him with a cane for his insolence and tardiness.
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Beadle received a seven-match touchline ban after accepting misconduct charges, and was fined 1,500, half of which was suspended subject to good behaviour.
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