| 单词 | train-bearer |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain-bearer train-bearer n. an attendant who holds up the train of a person wearing a formal robe, as a monarch or bride; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > train-bearer train-bearer1587 tail-bearer1598 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. xxviii. 377 The reuerendissimies haue their long tailes carried vp by their traine-bearers. 1655 Roll of Battel Abbey in T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 153 The Sun..is a comfortable Vsher to go before, but bad Train-bearer to come behind one. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6084/6 Sir Robert Rich his Train-bearer sitting over-against him. 1838 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 28 June in Lett. (2009) I. 135 I..went into a robing-room..where I found my eight train-bearers. 1871 J. R. Lowell Pope in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 56 No poet more often than he makes the second line of the couplet a mere train-bearer to the first. 1906 Surveyor 3 Aug. 165/2 There were three bridesmaids and two train bearers. 2009 Times (Nexis) 15 July 21 It's just him on stage, by himself, without even a train-bearer for company. < as lemmas |
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