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Bedford British & World English

a town in south central England, on the River Ouse, the county town of Bedfordshire; population 83,400 (est. 2009)

New Bedford British & World English

an industrial port city in southeastern Massachusetts, on Buzzards Bay, a noted 19th-century whaling center; population 91,365 (est. 2008)

Bedford cord British & World English

a tough woven fabric with prominent ridges, similar to corduroy

Bedford-Stuyvesant British & World English

a residential and commercial section of northern Brooklyn in New York City, home to one of the largest US black communities

Forrest, Nathan Bedford British & World English

(1821–77), Confederate cavalry officer. He led a massacre of 300 black Union soldiers at the surrender of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1864. After the Civil War, he was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan

Bennett, R. B. British & World English

(1870–1947), Canadian Conservative statesman; prime minister 1930–35; full name Richard Bedford Bennett

Richard Bedford Bennett in Bennett, R. B. British & World English

(1870–1947), Canadian Conservative statesman; prime minister 1930–35; full name Richard Bedford Bennett