tabellion

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Coming to the top of the staircase, up which he had been followed by a servant with a pallid countenance and a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya's sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name.

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  1. In the Roman empire, and in France till the revolution, an official scribe or scrivener having some of the functions of a notary. The tabellions were originally of higher rank than notaries, but afterward in France became subordinate to them. The title was abolished in 1761, except in certain seigniories.

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  • But because I had no protection, or good advice to superintend my training I had an idea of becoming the writer, tabellion, and rubrican of the Chapter of St. Maurice, in which were the highest and richest personages of Christendom, since the King of France is only therein a simple canon. —  Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
  • Coming to the top of the staircase, up which he had been followed by a servant with a pallid countenance and a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya's sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name. —  Swann's Way
  • A "croute" is the slang term for a man behind the age.--Tr The tabellion,--he called himself "tabellion," petty notary, and keeper of notes (making fun of his calling in order to seem above it the tabellion was on terms of spoken gallantry with Madame Soudry, who had a weakness for Lupin, though he was blond and wore spectacles. —  Sons of the Soil
  • I had an idea of becoming the writer, tabellion, and rubrican of the —  Droll Stories — Volume 2
  • a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya's sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name. —  Swann's Way
 

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  1. from French tabellion = Spanish tabelion = Portuguese tabellião, taballião = Italian tabellione, from Late Latin tabellio(n-), one who draws up legal papers, from Latin tabella, a tablet, legal paper: see tabella.
 

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