eschevin

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English

Etymology

Old French eschevin, a sort of magistrate, alderman, French échevin.

Noun

eschevin (plural eschevins)

  1. (obsolete) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eschevin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)