trainbearer

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Fergus acting as trainbearer.

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  1. noun An attendant who holds up the train of a robe or gown, as in a procession.

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  • Fergus acting as trainbearer. —  Beechcroft at Rockstone
  • But it must be admitted of Dryden that he seldom makes the second verse of a couplet the mere trainbearer to the first, as Pope was continually doing. —  Among My Books First Series
  • A baron of the Empire, a man of two ends, as his name (_Potelet_, a post) implies, he is paying his court to the Faubourg Saint-Germain, after a youth gloriously and usefully spent as the agreeable trainbearer of a sister of the man whom decency forbids me to mention by name. —  Lost Illusions
 

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