Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An attendant who holds up the train of a robe or gown, as in a procession.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds up the train of a robe; especially, such a person appointed to attend on the sovereign or some high official on an occasion of ceremony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who holds up a
train , as of arobe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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 James Russell Lowell 1855
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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 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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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.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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When he was 10, Jack was chosen to be the trainbearer for Archbishop Edward Hunkeler, who wore a cape with a long train when he celebrated Mass at the cathedral.
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When he was 10, Jack was chosen to be the trainbearer for Archbishop Edward Hunkeler, who wore a cape with a long train when he celebrated Mass at the cathedral.
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When he was 10, Jack was chosen to be the trainbearer for Archbishop Edward Hunkeler, who wore a cape with a long train when he celebrated Mass at the cathedral.
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When he was 10, Jack was chosen to be the trainbearer for Archbishop Edward Hunkeler, who wore a cape with a long train when he celebrated Mass at the cathedral.
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“They’ve got such a hard-on for me,” he explains, “they” being the Justice Department, which he has long held is Satan’s trainbearer.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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