| 单词 | daily waiter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaily waiter daily waiter n. now historical a person who is in continual attendance upon a superior (see waiter n. 5, 6); spec. (in the British royal household) one of a group of four gentleman-ushers (gentleman-usher n.) each responsible in turn for attending or waiting on the sovereign in the presence chamber (cf. quarter waiter n.).By the middle of the 19th century, holders of the office of Gentleman-Usher Daily Waiter were no longer required to perform duties within the royal household, although the Senior Gentleman-Usher always concurrently held the office of Usher of the Black Rod. As a distinct category of Gentleman Usher, the post of Daily Waiter ceased to exist in the early 20th century. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant minstrel?c1225 mill-knavec1380 subdeacona1382 rehetoura1425 daily waiter1519 apparitor1533 Nethinim1535 fealc1650 washpot1678 Sunday outer1837 comprador1840 liveryman1841 running dog1969 1519 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell sig. Aivv Also yemen of the garde and yemen of ye quenys chambre dayly wayters & yemen of ye crown hauynge ye fee may were dublettis of blak veluet satten. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f.41v Diogenes called Aristippus the kynges hounde, because he was a dayly waiter, and gaue contynuall attendaunce in the Courte of Dionysius the Tyranne of Sicilie. 1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 268 In the Presence Chamber, Gentlemen-Ushers, daily Waiters in Ordinary are 4, whereof the first hath the Office of Black Rod, and in time of Parliament is to attend every day the Lords House, and is also Usher of the Honourable Order of the Garter... Their Office is to wait in the Presence Chamber, and to attend next the Kings Person. 1812 W. Elford Let. 24 June in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) iii. 64 An election at Plymouth, occasioned by Sir T. Tyrwhitt's having accepted of the office of King's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, and Daily Waiter. 1901 Times 23 May 9/6 The death occurred last night of Colonel the Hon. Charles Eliot, Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to the King. 1993 R. O. Bucholz Augustan Court v. 121 The work of the public rooms was coordinated from the presence by the gentleman usher, daily waiter, in attendance. < as lemmas |
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