butler

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Anyone would have sworn that the butler was a real butler, the footman a real footman--only, as it happened, the butler was Whittington Tommy retired to the inn and waited for Albert's return.

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  1. noun The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of the other servants.

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  • The man Caroline assumed to be the butler was as impressive as the house he guarded. —  Garwood, Julie - Rebellious Desire
  • I sighed, said Mr. Sinclair the butler was a stickler for inventories. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10
  • "Lady Sandgate Her great-grandmother A responsible answer was prevented--the butler was again with them; he had opened wide the other door and he named to Mr. Bender the personage under his convoy. —  The Outcry
  • Toward the end of the dinner he called his butler, and turning to his bride, said, 'My love, let poverty also have a share of our superfluities.' —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
  • She could have very easily passed for a woman of his own race The housemaid and the butler were a couple of entirely different articles. —  Time Crime
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  1. Middle English, from Old French bouteillier, bottle bearer, from bouteille, botele, bottle; see bottle.

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  1. Early modern English also boteler, from Middle English boteler, botler, buteler, etc., from Anglo-French butuiller, Old French buteiller, bouteillier, boutillier (Middle Latin buticularius), from Anglo-French butuille, Old French bouteille, from Middle Latin buticula, a bottle: see bottle.
 

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/ˈbətlər/
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