单词 | pincern |
释义 | † pincernn. Obsolete (archaic in later use). A cup-bearer. 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 1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) ix. xiii. 729/1 [The] Lord Maior in his office of chiefe Pincern or Cup-waiter. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 43/2 Pincern Cup Waiters. 1779 D. Dalrymple Ann. Scotl. 67 (note) Thus we have..‘the Lord Pincern’, for ‘Lord Butler’. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. iii. 183 There, were to be seen [by the throne] camararius and pincerna, chamberlain and cupbearer.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1623 |
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