The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dapifer \Dap"i*fer\, n. [L., daps a feast + ferre to bear.] One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal. 2 (non-gloss definition: The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.) 3 The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
Usage examples of "dapifer".
Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.
Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.