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Definition of Cupbearer
1. Noun. The attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine.
Definition of Cupbearer
1. n. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
Definition of Cupbearer
1. Noun. One whose profession in general, or role in a particular event, is to carry a cup. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cupbearer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupbearer
Literary usage of Cupbearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... P it being for payment of “ his salary, and for his attending on the King as
cupbearer, and for his expences in his journeys to attend that service. ..."
2. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838 by Charles Wilkes (1852)
"... Ceremony of Avu Drinking — King's cupbearer — Exhibition of Fireworks —
Nocturnal Adventure — Koyal Breakfast — Country around Rewa ..."
3. The Odes and Secular Hymn of Horace by Horace, Warren H. Cudworth (1917)
"XXXVIII To my cupbearer THIS Persian luxury, my boy, I hate, Nor care for chaplets
bound with linden bast; Inquire not in what covert, blooming late, ..."
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