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Cupbearer

Cupbearer \Cup"bear`er\ (-b[^a]r`[~e]r), 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.''
    --Neh. i. 11.

Wiktionary
cupbearer

n. One whose profession in general, or role in a particular event, is to carry a cup.

WordNet
cupbearer

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

Usage examples of "cupbearer".

The moment that he did, his cupbearer and his charioteer would carry him off to bed.

Imperial cupbearer are always important, and I would have bought those of Helladius with a myriad of bezants.

And the feasters delayed not to fall to on these dainties, while the cupbearer bore round a mighty bowl of beaten gold filled with sparkling wine the hue of the yellow sapphire, and furnished with six golden ladles resting their handles in six half- moon shaped nicks in the rim of that great bowl.

The robes are much the same as for a cupbearer, but I will have yours decorated with ribbons.

All was there, the golden fringe of cloud, the eagles, and the cupbearer of immortality.

Clyde did his best, and a very good best it was, to infuse something of the banquet into their prolonged desert picnics, but even snow-cooled Heidsieck lost its flavour when you were convinced that the dusky cupbearer who served it with such reverent elegance was only waiting a convenient opportunity to cut your throat.

She handed the gold cup to her cupbearer, a pretty young woman dressed in a plain gown of white linen.

Such drivel was the nature of my thoughts, for no one spoke in terms of gain and loss and political position, the possibility of poison and whether or not the royal cupbearer had mysteriously disappeared or the steward wore a new silver chain and a secret smile.

I am Baron Troylin of Carrasahl, and the underfed cupbearer there is my daughter, Breenanin.

You are not pretty enough for a cupbearer, but it might please me to have you for one.

The butler and cupbearers served fine Burgundy as the alewife and her seductive daughter, Edith, sauntered about, proffering their ale and mead.

He was not about to go anywhere she had the upper hand, her and her talk of cupbearers and running grooms and marrying to serve the Empire.

And now, ye mates, I do appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there-- yon three most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers.

May I not say that the usual tether of this class, in the way of carnifers, cupbearers, and the rest, does not reach beyond neat-handed Phyllis and the greengrocer?

He stares up at the ceiling, which is fraught with safety equipment whose LEDs form a glowering red constellation, a crouching figure known to the ancient Greeks as Ganymede, the Anally Receptive Cupbearer, and to the Nipponese, as Hideo, the Plucky Disaster Relief Worker, bending over to probe a pile of jagged concrete slabs for anything that’.