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chamberlain

[chaym-ber-lin] / ˈtʃeɪm bər lɪn /
NOUN
steward
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A little over two hours later, the cardinal chamberlain, or camerlengo, stood in the Casa Santa Marta and made the news public.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025

This alienated his family members, who grew resentful of the power of Askia’s head chamberlain, Ali Fulan.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

During that period, known as the “sede vacante,” or “empty See,” the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

At the sound of a gong, a chamberlain and a lady-in-waiting opened the curtains, revealing the emperor and empress.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2019

I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

In time-honored imperial fashion, the prince was separated from his parents at about the age of three and raised by nurses, tutors and chamberlains.

From Time Magazine Archive

At half-past 6 p. m., the Emperor entered the hall, in plain clothes, attended by two chamberlains.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer


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