chamberlain

• Then he called his chamberlain, Messer Traiano, and bade him bring five hundred golden ducats of the Camera. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• She walked to the door, and shaking hands with old Katharine, thanked her for the hospitable reception she had met with in her cottage, and then stepped out of the low door for the carriage, at which the high-chamberlain was awaiting her I beg leave, gracious countess, to take upon myself the functions of our outrider. —  Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
• Near him were his grand chamberlain, the Count de Brahe, who was honoured with the favourite estimation of his sovereign, and the principal state physician, Baumgarten, a learned disciple of Hippocrates, who aimed at the reputation of an esprit fort_, and who would have pardoned a disbelief in anything except in the efficacy of his own prescriptions. —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
• Prominent among their party were courtier nobles--such as the chamberlain, Lord Latimer, and the steward of the household, Lord Neville of Raby,--and rich London financiers, chief among whom was Richard Lyons, men who made exorbitant profits out of the necessities of the administration. —  The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
• Is my lord chamberlain, and the scrutineers that succeed him, to tell us, when the king and the duke of York are abused?" —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07

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