train-bearer

If the heiress had wished for a train-bearer, one would instantly have been found.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Thirdly, it amused that whimsical element of farce and mischief which was always so irrepressible in him, from the early days when he is said to have nearly damned his own play by appearing on the stage as the high-priest's train-bearer, and burlesquing that august person's solemn gait.

Voltaire 2007

Cobbett, an anarchist, or libeller; but yet, on the other hand, as little was he ever a lackey, cringing at the gates of Power, or a train-bearer in the retinue of Fashion.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

If she accepted any aid from her gentlemen she was very careful to keep her hand upon the dress, so that technically she was still her own train-bearer.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

Marillac was train-bearer to Gerfaut, and was rewarded for this bondage by a few bribes of collaboration, crumbs that fall from the rich man's table.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

I went immediately to Court, and was taken up the back staircase by the Queen's train-bearer to the petit oratoire, where her Majesty was shut up all alone.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The highest nobleman in rank, or the King's brother, if present, to lead the Queen; another of the King's brothers, or else the Prince, to walk with the King's train-bearer.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

"_Laissez, laissez, Marguerite_, it is clean here; it will look fine on the green!" cried the bride to an improvised train-bearer, who had been holding up the white alpaca.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

I lifted it up, and we started in procession for the Cove, Aleck acting train-bearer to the long tail, and winding it up as he went along; and Groves and Ralph carrying the hamper.

The Story of the White-Rock Cove Anonymous

Those who like their fiction to provide them with 'a good laugh 'will doubtless prefer this book, which is packed from cover to cover with mirth-provoking material, to those other books by the same author, in which humour acts chiefly as train-bearer to tragedy.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918