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Cupbearer   Listen
noun
Cupbearer  n.  
1.
One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
2.
(Antiq.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. "I was the king's cupbearer."





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"Cupbearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... sumptuous palace, in the middle of a vast hall, perfumed, and draped with Egyptian fabrics, stands a table, and upon it are the most delicious viands. Adoni-bezek is dining. His attendants are standing each in his place—his cupbearer, the master baker, and the chief cook. The eunuchs, his slaves, come and go; bringing every variety of dainty dishes, and the flesh of all sorts of beasts and birds, ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz


Words linked to "Cupbearer" :   attender


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