scarleteer
English
Etymology
scarlet + -eer
Noun
scarleteer (plural scarleteers)
- One who wears scarlet robes of office, such as a cardinal.
- 1892, Anthony Wood, Andrew Clark, Llewelyn Powys, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood:
- In the meane while the chancellour, who was in the Convocation house, and the rest of his retinew, put on scarlet habits: and no sooner had the vicechancellour finished, but the chancellour, with the bedells before him and the scarleteers after him, entred the Theater, all bare, while the organ played.
- 1894, Sir Henry Craik, English Prose: Selections - Volume 3, page 173:
- Soon after the king approaching within the gate, the mayor, recorder, and some of the scarleteers alighted, while the rest put themselves out to march before the king.
- A prostitute.
- 1816, Thomas Burke, Limehouse Nights:
- Damn it, he wasn't going to stand by and be dished by any lousy scarleteer of a yellow devil; not much.,
- 1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 305:
- Each scarleteer had her own cubicle and jism-caked pad.
- A variety of chrysanthemum with red petals.
- 1969, The Chrysanthemum Bulletin - Volumes 25-28, page 62:
- BGA Raspberry Ice and BGA Scarleteer was judged too late in flowering to be useful.
- 1972, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Weed Science Society:
- A difference in tolerance between the varieties was noted with Minnpink being more susceptible than Scarleteer when treated with either EPTC or RP-17623.
Anagrams
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