Master of the Rolls

Meaning

Noun

  • The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
  • A baker.

Origin

  • The sense of a baker is a pun alluding to bread rolls.

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