Butlership

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The rank, office, or position of a butler. countable, uncountable

    "A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery."

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"A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery."

Etymology

From Middle English buttlershipe, equivalent to butler + -ship.

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