| 单词 | closet-keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloset-keeper closet-keeper n. now historical a person charged with keeping or maintaining the contents (esp. valuable items) of a closet (chiefly in sense A. 4). ΚΠ 1624 E. Forset Def. Right of Kings 12 Now it is meete we look into the maine and substantiall point of doctrine, which (as if hee were closset-keeper to the Pope) hee confidently deliuereth to be Catholike and Orthodoxall. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 8 Apr. (1972) VII. 94 Tom Cheffins..the King's closet-keeper. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 116 The office of closet-keeper to the King. 1896 Daily News 15 June 8/2 He saw the King's closet-keeper carry out the King's papers to the camp. 1948 F. C. Turner James II i. xiii. 227 William Chiffinch had succeeded his father Thomas Chiffinch in 1666 as closet-keeper to Charles II. 2013 Simiolus 37 59/1 The collection of a Mr Simonis, closet-keeper to Archduke Leopold in Brussels. < as lemmas |
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