trainbearer

/ ˈtreɪnˌbɛərə /

noun

1. an attendant in a procession who holds up the train of a dignitary's robe

Example Sentences

Queen Victoria’s coronation was completely unrehearsed; the clergy lost its place in the order of service; the choir was awful; the ring didn’t fit; and the trainbearers talked throughout the entire ceremony.

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For example, the speaker’s daily procession through the palace before opening parliamentary proceedings, accompanied by the chaplain, the trainbearer, the secretary, the serjeant-at-arms and cries of “Hats off, strangers!”

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He lost his temper at his coronation on perceiving that some of the princesses of his family who were to act as trainbearers were not in their right places.

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But it must be admitted of Dryden that he seldom makes the second verse of a couplet the mere trainbearer to the first, as Pope was continually doing.

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"Yes, mother, I have learned to be your trainbearer, but to no other mortal would I condescend to do such service."

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