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单词 pulletier
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pulletiern.

Forms: 1600s pulletier, 1600s pullitier.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pullet n., -ier suffix.
Etymology: Apparently < pullet n. + -ier suffix. Compare Middle French pouletier poulter n. Compare earlier poulter n., poulterer n. Compare also poultry n.
Roman History. Obsolete. rare.
An official having charge of the sacred chickens whose behaviour was observed for purposes of divination or augury. Cf. pullarian adj.
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. 382 The principall pulletier [L. pullarius] chaunced to be stricken with a Iavelin.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. xxi. 279 They that by their tripudium solistimum (i. their heartie feeding) observed by the pullitiers, shew good successe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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