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lord-in-waiting

[ lawrd-in-wey-ting ]

/ ˈlɔrd ɪnˈweɪ tɪŋ /

noun, plural lords-in-wait·ing.

a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.

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Origin of lord-in-waiting

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby lord-in-waiting

Lord Chief Justice, Lord Haw-Haw, Lord High Chancellor, Lord Howe Island, lording, lord-in-waiting, lord it over, Lord Jim, Lord Justice of Appeal, lordless, Lord Lieutenant

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Example sentences from the Web for lord-in-waiting

At dinner, the first Lord-in-waiting took the head of the table; opposite to him, the chief Equerry-in-waiting.
The Public Life of Queen Victoria|John McGilchrist
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet mercantile politician or a lord-in-waiting?
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron|Francis Henry Gribble
The lord-in-waiting presents you to the King; and the lady-in-waiting does the same to her Majesty.
Abigail Adams and Her Times|Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Two small silver bars across his left shoulder showed that he was a lord-in-waiting.
After London|Richard Jefferies

I really would rather be porter to the House than a lord-in-waiting.
Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II)|Edmund Downey

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