| 单词 | under spur-leather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder spur-leather 2. under spur-leather, a subordinate, an attendant, a menial. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] thanea700 yeoman1345 squirec1380 foot followera1382 handservanta1382 servitora1382 ministera1384 servera1425 squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450 attender1461 waitera1483 awaiter1495 tender?a1505 waiting-man1518 satellite?1520 attendant1555 sitter-byc1555 pediseque1606 asseclist?1607 tendant1614 assecle1616 fewterera1625 escudero1631 peon1638 wait1652 under spur-leather1685 body servant1689 slavey1819 tindal1859 maid-attendant1896 1685 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 83 The whole discourse both in the City, and amongst the under-spurr-leathers of the Court, is that Hambden is to die on Friday. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. ii. x In came a parcel of strapping Scoundrels to wait at Table, whom the topping Bullies call Under-spurleathers. 1717 J. Dennis Remarks Pope's Transl. Homer 9 A notorious Ideot,..who from an under-spur Leather to the Law, is become an under-strapper to the Play-House. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf xii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 242 I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ. 1886 Athenæum 4 Sept. 300/1 It was an imitation of Swift's..manner by one of his ‘under spur-leathers’. < as lemmas |
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