单词 | chamber-groom |
释义 | > as lemmaschamber-groom chamber-groom n. now historical and rare a male personal attendant, a valet. ΚΠ 1593 A. Anderson Approved Med. against Deserued Plague sig. Aiv Be your Prophets chamber groomes, to lay pillowes, vnder sinfull elbowes? a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) v. 70 An Emperour might die standing, why not I? Nay without help, in which I will exceed him; For he died splinted with his chamber Groomes. 1888 J. Hunter-Duvar De Roberval i. v. 27 My affair was prospering, when the chamber-groom Announced the Marquis de la Casserole. 2007 D. Thomas Execution of Sherlock Holmes v. 332 The sergeants had unlocked the next door and now brought forward the robes, one at a time, and handed them to the chamber-grooms who would assist their patrons to put them on. < as lemmas |
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