Classic FM

[Manroc]

Help please. There is always one! "Band of musicians formerly employed by a city or town to play in public ceremonies (4) ??I?

Thanks in advance

[boaw]

Are you sure the third letter is `l` A `wait` is described in the Oxford Dictionary as `a member of a small band of wind instrumentalists maintained by a city or town` In plural the word is such a body.

[crofter]

Well spotted boaw - but when is a lower case L in fact an upper case i?

Chambers gives for wait: (in pl.) musicians employed by a town to play on ceremonial occasions (hist.)

[Manroc]

Many thanks to both boaw and crofter. yes, it was a lower case"l".