单词 | chamber child |
释义 | > as lemmaschamber child chamber child n. Scottish (now historical and archaic) a personal attendant, a valet. ΚΠ 1542 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 769 x s. gevin to Chesolme, chalmerchild to my lord of Abirdene. 1597 J. Melville Ane Fruitful & Comfortable Exhortatioun Anent Death 14 This moved Phillip of Macedon, to commaunde his chalmer child euerie morning oft times to crye thrise in his ear; remember..that thou art but a mortall man. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell i. i. 14 Her mere grace And simple favour shown a simple knave, Her chamber-child, her varlet? 1986 M. H. B. Sanderson Cardinal of Scotl. iii. xiii. 228 It is just possible, however, that the ‘chamber child’, or body-servant,..may have been Amand Guthrie. < as lemmas |
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