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chamberlain

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a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household. Historically, the chamberlain superintends the arrangement of domestic affairs and was often also charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber. The position was usually honoured upon a high-ranking member of the nobility (nobleman) or the clergy, often a royal favourite.

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In those times a bed was always to be got there at any hour of the night, and the chamberlain, letting me in at his ready wicket, lighted the candle next in order on his shelf, and showed me straight into the bedroom next in order on his list.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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The general came into the same opinion; so that for a long time there was a majority against you; but his majesty resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the chamberlain.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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the double doors of the dining-room swung apart; a chamberlain with the air of a Lord Chamberlain bowed before the Princesse de Parme and announced the tidings “Madame is served,” in a tone such as he would have employed to say “Madame is dead,”

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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The office off a chamburlayne.

“The Curtesy of a chamburlayñ is in office to be diligent,
Clenli clad, his cloþis not all to-rent;
handis & face wascheñ fayre, his hed well kempt;
& war euer of fyre and candille þat he be not neccligent.
John Russell. The Boke of Nurture (1460)
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