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beadroll

beadroll noun: a catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.

Noun

beadroll (plural beadrolls)

  1. (obsolete) A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
  2. A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
    • Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.1806, Abraham Hayward, “Vicissitudes of Family […] ”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 107

Forms of beadroll

pluralbeadrolls

Origin of beadroll

From bead + roll.

Questions about beadroll

What does beadroll mean?
Beadroll means a catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
What part of speech is beadroll?
Beadroll is a noun.
What is the plural of beadroll?
The plural of beadroll is beadrolls.

Words near beadroll in the dictionary

  1. beadmaker
  2. beadmakers
  3. beadmaking
  4. beadman
  5. beadmen
  6. beadroll
  7. beadrolls
  8. beads
  9. beadsman
  10. beadsmen
  11. beadsnake

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