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noun, masculine

bailli

/ba.ji/

noun, masculine/ba.ji/plural: baillis

bailli is masculine in French.

a bailiff: an appointee of the king administering certain districts of northern France in the medieval period

Inherited from Old French bailif (nominative singular bailis), itself from baillir or baillier, or from Vulgar Latin *bāiulivus (possibly as an early borrowing), from Latin baiulus.