train-bearer

train-bearer

See also: trainbearer

English

Noun

train-bearer (plural train-bearers)

1. An attendant who supports the train of a dignitary.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     This fellow, I say, stiled himself a lawyer, but was indeed a most vile petty-fogger, without sense or knowledge of any kind; one of those who may be termed train-bearers to the law […]

Translations

attendant who supports the train

Italian: caudatario m Spanish: caudatario m, caudataria f