What is "talebearers"

Usage examples of "talebearers".

After all, he had just made a highly public appearance at the Hippodrome with his father and Anna Dalassena's son: that should content the talebearers, who might have been glad to say that he had withdrawn from the amusements of his class as well as its obligations.

Ambient temperature, body size, clothing, location, cause of death, and many more postmortem minutiae can be naughty little talebearers that fool even an expert and completely confuse him or her as to what really happened.

Obviously, since your messmates are not talebearers, I have had no idea of your conduct in the gunroom.