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Cupbearer

noun
1.
The attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine.





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"Cupbearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Boy cupbearer of old Falernian, pour me fiercer cups as bids the laws of Postumia, mistress of the feast, drunker than a drunken grape. But ye, hence, as far as ye please, crystal waters, bane of wine, hie ye to the sober: here ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... scentless and stiff was all he grasped. When he called to him the carrier-dove that sped with a scroll of love words across the mountains, the bird sank on his breast a carven piece of metal. When he was athirst and shouted to his cupbearer for drink, the red wine ran a stream of molten gold. When he would fain have eaten, the pulse and the pomegranate grew alike to gold between his teeth. And lo! at eventide, when he sought the silent chambers of his ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida


Words linked to "Cupbearer" :   attender, tender, attendant


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