pantlerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pantler (plural pantlers)

1. (obsolete) The servant in charge of the bread and the pantry in a great house.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     A good shallow young fellow. ’A would have made a pantler; ’a would ha’ chipp’d bread well.

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon
     This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
     Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;

参考

• bread-bearer

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “pantler”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• planter, Larpent, Platner, replant