单词 | cubicular |
释义 | † cubicularn. Obsolete. An attendant in a bedchamber; a groom of the bedchamber; a chamberlain. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > servant of bedchamber chamberlainc1325 cubicularya1382 cubicularc1425 chamberer?a1439 bedchamber-man1643 bower-thane1845 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. vi. 24 Hyr Cubiculare By hyr lay, and gat a Barne. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 82/2 The lord comanded hys cubyculyers that she [Judith] shold goo and come at her playsir. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 61v Sensualitie..Quhilk to Venus was cheif Cubiculair. a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) v. 236 Monsieur Verac, Cubiculare to the French King. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lx. 70 With the zealots of the Church on one side and the ‘cubiculars’ of the Court on the other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). cubicularadj. Of or belonging to a bedchamber. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [adjective] > bedroom cubicular1611 cubiculary1646 cubiculous1715 bedroomed1865 bedroomy1866 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cubiculaire, cubicular, belonging to the bedchamber. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxxii. 47 For his privat cubicular devotions. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xvi. 39 Being the inseparablest Cubicular Companion. 1768 Life & Advent. Sir B. Sapskull I. 127 Cubicular devotion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.c1425adj.1611 |
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