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cup-bearer

cup-bearer is the alternative form of cupbearer.

Meaning of cupbearer

Noun

cupbearer (plural cupbearers)

  1. (historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.
    • [W]hile the King [Edward the Confessor] and Godwine [Godwin, Earl of Wessex] 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 recouer himſelfe without...1596, William Lambarde, “The Goodwine, or Goodwine Sands: Lomea after Twyne”, in A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. […], London: […] Edm[und?]...
    Synonyms:
    cupper

Forms of cup-bearer

pluralcup-bearers

Questions about cup-bearer

What is cup-bearer the alternative form of?
Cup-bearer is the alternative form of cupbearer.

Words near cup-bearer in the dictionary

  1. cup towels
  2. cup-and-ball
  3. cup-and-balls
  4. cup-and-saucer plant
  5. cup-and-saucer plants
  6. cup-bearer
  7. cup-bearers
  8. cup-rose
  9. cup-roses
  10. cup-shaped
  11. cup-shot

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