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Webster 1913 Edition

(-bârˊẽr)

Noun.

One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.

(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.”

Neh. i. 11.

Noun.

An attendant of a prince or at a feast, who conveys wine or other liquors to the guests; an officer of the kings household. Nehemiah 1.