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Tom o' Bedlam

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Tom o' Bedlam (plural Tom o' Bedlams or Toms o' Bedlam)

  1. (historical) A wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England.
  2. (archaic) Any wandering mendicant, either mad or pretending to be so.
  3. (archaic) A madman; a bedlamite.
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