释义 |
pageship|ˈpeɪdʒʃɪp| [f. page n.1 + -ship.] The office of a page. Also humorously, as a title.
1835Lytton Rienzi vii. vi, May I wait on thy pageship to-morrow? 1844Tupper Crock of G. xxiii. 187 The house⁓keeper had power to push her nephew on to pageship, footmanship—to the final post of butler. 1891–2T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. i. 31 It was probably to fit the period of this assumed pageship that the year 1340 was fixed upon as the date of Chaucer's birth. |