See Also: Floral(medicine)
floral(dictionary)
floral(dictionary)
extra-floral(medicine)
floral decoration(encyclopedia)
Festive Caramel Floral Rolls(recipes)
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas(tourism)

beadle (iou) and floral (oh)


beadle (iou)



beadle noun. Also (now only in sense 3) bedel, bedell.
[Old English bydel = Old High German butil (German Buttel) from Germanic base of Old English beodan (see BID verb), superseded by forms from Old French bedel (mod. bedeau) from Proto-Romance from Germanic.]
A person who makes a proclamation; a court usher; a town-crier. OE-L17.
A messenger or under-officer of justice. OE-E18.
A ceremonial usher, a mace-bearer, spec. in certain universities, city companies, etc. (sometimes conventionally spelt bedel, -ell); in University College, London, a porter. ME.
a. Hist. A parish officer appointed by the vestry to keep order in church, punish petty offenders, etc. L16.
b. In Scotland, a church official attending on the minister. M19.
beadledom noun (arch.) stupid officiousness M19.
beadleship noun the office or jurisdiction of a beadle M16.

floral (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: flos; FLORA]
made of flowers or decorated with flowers or pictures of flowers
::a scarf with a bold floral pattern
::a pretty floral dress
::a light floral fragrance
::There were floral tributes (=flowers sent as a sign of respect after someone has died) from friends and colleagues.