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单词 bottle bearer
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bottle bearer
bottle bearer n. a person who carries or holds a bottle; spec. a person who serves wine, a butler (historical); cf. cup-bearer n.
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butler?a1300
somler1543
bottle bearer1571
wine butler1880
wine steward1898
1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. Ee.iij Vn Sommelier, a bottle bearer.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. ix. 17) 321 Certain hereticks called..Bottle-bearers, because they bare a bottle on their backs.
1881 J. Younger Autobiogr. John Younger xxvii. 357 The framers of these partial laws enjoyed the free moorland twelfth-of-August airs, with their meat bag and bottle bearers.
1972 Dubois County Daily Herald (Jasper, Indiana) 25 Apr. 4/2 Originally, butlers—bouteilliers, or bottle bearers in France—presided chiefly over a household's wine and spirits supply.
2010 V. Dockerty Woman Undefeated xix. 215 What's yer name, love? I can't keep callin' yer the bottle bearer.
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