Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The elder or warden who was principal of an ancient guild.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
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- noun obsolete The
alderman orchief officer of an ancientguild .
Etymologies
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Old French eschevin, a sort of magistrate, alderman, French échevin.
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At Arras in 1460 Jean Tacquet, a rich eschevin, 'had endeavoured to withdraw his allegiance from Satan who had forced him to continue it by beating him cruelly with a bull's pizzle.' [
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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