单词 | cup-bearer |
释义 | cup-bearern. One who carries a cup; an officer of a king's or nobleman's household who served his master with wine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > cup-bearer birleOE cupper14.. versora1483 cup-bearer1483 tankard-bearer?1518 copper1528 tankard-yeoman1563 gobleter1623 pincern1623 pocillatora1659 tankard-womana1667 society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > in charge of food, table, or plate > who served master with wine cup-bearer1483 1483 Cath. Angl. 75 A Copberer, ciphigerulus. 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 14 Esquyers for the Kynges body hys Cuppe berers Carvours and Sewers. 1611 Bible (King James) Neh. i. 11. For I was the kings cup-bearer [ Coverdale, butler]. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 263 The cup-bearer carries round wine which he draws..and pours into the cups. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483 |
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