Cupbearer

Cup′bearˊer

(-bârˊẽr)

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Noun.

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.”

Neh. i. 11.

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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.

See also: cup-bearer

cupbearer ‎(plural cupbearers)

One whose profession in general, or role in a particular event, is to carry a cup.
- Bible, Nehemiah 1:11
  For I was the king's cupbearer.
- 1826, William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent
  […] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]

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