Etymology

bailie

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Today it means: A bailiff. Full definition →

Old French bailli
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  1. Old French · derived frombailli“land steward; officer of justice”
  2. English todaybailie

From Old French bailli (“land steward; officer of justice”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.