"cup-bearer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cup-bearers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cup-bearer (plural cup-bearers)
  1. Alternative form of cupbearer Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: cupbearer
    Sense id: en-cup-bearer-en-noun-CLYuIXIa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1736, [Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède], translated by Robert Loveday, Hymen’s Præludia: Or, Love’s Master-piece. Being that So-much-admir’d Romance, intitled, Cleopatra. […], volume I, London: […] J. Watson, […], →OCLC, part II, book I, page 78:",
          "text": "[C]alling for Drink, one of the King's Cup-bearers that was accuſtomed to ſerve me, preſented the Cup with a troubled Look, and diſcompoſed Countenance: [...] taking the Cup from his Hands, I was carrying it to my Mouth, when Arſanes enter'd the Chamber, and haſtily running up to me, juſt as I touched the Cup with my Lips, he ruſhed against my Arm ſo rudely, as he made me let fall the Cup, [...]",
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