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单词 marshals man
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marshal's mann.

Forms: see marshal n. and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marshal n., man n.1
Etymology: < the genitive of marshal n. + man n.1 Compare earlier marshalman n.
Obsolete.
1. An officer under the orders of the marshal of the City of London. Cf. city marshal n. at city n. Compounds 1a(b).
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1597 E. S. Discouerie Knights of Poste sig. C3 They are no persons of any great reconing, but such as..runnes away when they are calde, if they spie but one of the Marshales men in sight.
1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. Bv Her dearest Knight..What with his debts, and what with Haue at all; Lay hidden like a sauage in his den, For feare of Bayliffes, Sergeants, Marshals men.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. i. 3 in Poems (1638) Bailies, Promooters, Iaylors, and Apparitours, Beadles, and Martialls men, the needfull instruments Of the Republique.
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 195 Serjeants, Bailiffs, Marshals Men, and such kind of Varlets, have had as much Money of me at several times, as would pay all the Debts I at present owe.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical (1709) viii. 84 Serv'd the State in the Quality of Marshal's Men, and Thief-Takers.
1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 17 Two of the Marshal's Men brought these two Ladies by us..for having pickt a Gentleman's Pocket.
2. A member of a group of officers (formerly under the orders of the knight marshal) belonging to the English royal household, with the task of going before the monarch in processions to clear the way. More fully knight marshal's man: see knight marshal n. at knight n. Compounds 2.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > one who clears the way
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 313 Then he burst his head for crowding among the Marshalles men . View more context for this quotation
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. iii. 541 (List Househ. Officers below Stairs) Sir Philip Meadows Knight-Marshal. John Lester [etc.], Marshal's Men.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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