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butlership|ˈbʌtləʃɪp|
[f. butler n. + -ship.]
The office of butler.
1535Coverdale Gen. xl. 21 And restored the chefe butlar to his butlarshipe agayne. 1587J. Higins Mirr. Mag. (1610) 482 Chief butlership of Normandy unto me fell. 1612Caius Coll. MS. in Gentl. Mag. (1883) Oct. 384 [Plate] spoyled and battered at the going out of Sir Utting out of his buttler⁓ship. 1621Bolton Stat. Irel. 399 (an. 28 Eliz.) Any Patentee or Patentees of any the office or offices of Collectorship..or of the Butlership, or price Wines. 1829Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 182 The Mayor's claim to the chief butlership. 1840Mrs. Gore in New Monthly Mag. LX. 54 The clodpole she has disciplined into butlership. |