单词 | syce |
释义 | sycesaisn. In parts of Africa and Asia, and esp. in India, a servant who attends to horses, a groom; also, an attendant who follows on foot a mounted horseman or a carriage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > groom palfreyman1297 horse-knavec1300 palfreyour1301 hostlera1450 ostlerc1449 stable groomc1485 palfrenier1490 equerry1552 jack-boy1562 horse-boy1563 custrel1577 ostleress1639 saddle nag1647 syce1650 groom1667 pad-groom1743 stable-boy1745 stableman1745 mehtar1828 strapper1828 lad1848 stable-lad1856 mafoo1863 ostler boy1864 swipe1929 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > footman > footman or groom stuffet?a1513 syce1650 1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio x. 149 The..Master of the horse, hath the charge..of all his other horses, mules, cammels, and all his cattle..having..many ordinary groomes, which are to look to them, and see that the Seises keep them in good case. 1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 172 I had my servant, and a seis or groom, to look after my horse. 1779 in H. E. Busteed Echoes Old Calcutta (1882) 230 The bearer and scise..came to the place where I was. 1815 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1847) xxvi. 437 The Sais, or horse-attendant,..took charge of my horse. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 295 The gallant aide-de-camp mounted his little Arabian, and followed by his sice at full speed, galloped away to head-quarters. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. i. 2 Syces were fanning the horses with their chowries. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxviii. 260 The Course is at Calcutta..he calls his grooms saices! 1888 R. Kipling Miss Youghal's Sais in Plain Tales from Hills 28 He..deserved a V.C., if it were only for putting on a sais's blanket. 1896 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Flotsam xxii. 254 The carriages rolled up to the cathedral doors, and the syces..cried frantically to the throng to make room. 1924 L. Eckenstein Tutankh-aten ii. 24 The saïses running on either side of the chariots as only outrunners in Egypt can run. 1927 R. J. H. Sidney In Brit. Malaya To-day 143 The Malay saises will all be playing cards. 1936 W. H. S. Smith Let. 26 June in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 11 I said good-bye to Peter and his sais yesterday morning. 1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind viii. 113 I'll walk back to your bungalow with you. My sais can bring Beauty along. 1975 T. Dinesen My Sister, Isak Dinesen v. 56 The sais (horse-keeper) was to bring the horses up after us. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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