butlership
- a word derived from butler.
Example Sentences
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But it will all come right; and if I were you, I should go in for the butlership.
From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville
Against his master’s protests, he resigned his butlership.
From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert
For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter
Jasper’s exclamation was fervent beyond all rules of butlership.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel