butlership
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English buttlershipe, equivalent to butler + -ship.
Noun[edit]
butlership (countable and uncountable, plural butlerships)
- The rank, office, or position of a butler.
- 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
- A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.