chamberlains
- plural of chamberlain.
Example Sentences
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Rather than handing her children over to court chamberlains to raise, she cared for them herself.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2021
The few other people in the room were members of the imperial family, court chamberlains, ladies-in-waiting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaders of the two houses of Parliament and the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2019
This is a man in mid-thought, quick with watchful intelligence, on equal terms with the painter; indeed, they were both chamberlains at the Spanish court.
From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2016
At twelve he had been a stiff, lonely boy who lived in a big, cold house with no one except his retinue of chamberlains and servants to keep him company.
From Time Magazine Archive
That evening, every 321 time the fire fell, he sent one of his chamberlains to inquire in what state we were and if the fire had done us any damage.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
