单词 | assewer |
释义 | † assewern. Obsolete. An officer who superintended the placing of a banquet on the table, or who himself carried in and arranged the dishes; a sewer. (In the Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. of Edw. IV it interchanges with Sewer, and represents the Asseour of the Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. of Edw. II, transl. in 1601 Assayer.) ΘΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > in charge of food, table, or plate butlerc1325 asseour1448 yeoman of the ewery1450 yeoman for the mouth1455 yeoman of the bottles1455 lardiner1469 yeoman of the buttery1473 surveyora1475 assewer1478 larderer1483 yeoman of the cellar1508 bread-bearer1518 groom-grubber1526 bottlemana1550 yeoman of the larder1585 saucery-man1691 plateman1842 plate-keeper1843 1478 Liber Niger Edw. IV in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 45 Twentie Squires attendantes on the Kinges person..to helpe serue his table..as the Assewer will assigne. a1483 Liber Niger Edw. IV in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 36 A sewar for the Kynge..He receveth the metes by sayes and saufly so conveyeth it to the King's bourde..he seweth at one mele, and dyneth and soupeth at another mele... Item, if the King's surveyour lacke, then this assewer, with the clerke of countrolment and the clerk of Kychyn, and the master cooke for the mouthe, shall go see the King's servyse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1478 |
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