Cup-bearers

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  1. 1
    plural of cup-bearer form-of, plural

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"A: When now it is far in the evening, and no more are expected to come, an old servant comes out with a hoary beard, shorn head, grim look, mean cloaths. B: It behoved such to be cup-bearers to the Roman cardinals."

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