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单词 lord in waiting
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lord in waiting
lord in waiting n. [compare earlier lady-in-waiting n.] (a) (the title of) a nobleman appointed to provide companionship and personal assistance to the monarch or Prince of Wales; (b) (in later use) a junior government minister in the House of Lords appointed to perform certain ceremonial duties on behalf of the monarch (the female counterpart of whom is called a baroness in waiting).
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1719 Weekly-Jrnl. 28 Nov. 1455/1 His Majesty being told of it, by some of the Lords in waiting.
1860 W. G. Clark Let. 18 Sept. in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. (1861) 45 Carts loaded with furniture passed out from time to time, the property, I suppose, of Goldsticks, and Chamberlains, and Lords-in-waiting.
1892 Sat. Rev. 3 Dec. 644 What the functions of Lords-in-Waiting are is one of those mysteries of the Household.
1927 H. W. Root Unknown Barnum viii. 106 Barnum and the General were taken in hand by a lord in waiting and carefully informed as to the proper behaviour in the presence of royalty.
1971 New Scientist 4 Mar. 502/2 I never knew that Parliamentary Questions could be answered by a Lord-in-Waiting, who must be the most minor figure in the governmental firmament.
2011 Daily Tel. 11 July 29/3 Nicky's father was Lord in Waiting to both George V and George VI.
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