单词 | under-butler |
释义 | under-butlern. (under- prefix1 3a(a).) ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > butler > subordinate under-butler1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Soubscelerier, an vnder Butler. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 651 The Establishment of..the said Hospital [of Chelsea includes]..2 Under-Butl [ers] at 5l. each. 1821 C. Butler Hist. Mem. Eng. Catholics III. xxxvi. 238 He himself was, for some time, under-butler in Gray's-inn. 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. i. 2 The butler at Belfield was sixty, the under-butler over fifty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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