| 单词 | bottle bearer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle bearer bottle bearer n. a person who carries or holds a bottle; spec. a person who serves wine, a butler (historical); cf. cup-bearer n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > butler butler?a1300 somler1543 bottle bearer1571 wine butler1880 wine steward1898 1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. Ee.iij Vn Sommelier, a bottle bearer. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. ix. 17) 321 Certain hereticks called..Bottle-bearers, because they bare a bottle on their backs. 1881 J. Younger Autobiogr. John Younger xxvii. 357 The framers of these partial laws enjoyed the free moorland twelfth-of-August airs, with their meat bag and bottle bearers. 1972 Dubois County Daily Herald (Jasper, Indiana) 25 Apr. 4/2 Originally, butlers—bouteilliers, or bottle bearers in France—presided chiefly over a household's wine and spirits supply. 2010 V. Dockerty Woman Undefeated xix. 215 What's yer name, love? I can't keep callin' yer the bottle bearer. < as lemmas |
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