(n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(2) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(3) Tony Abbott pretended to support the renewable energy industry before the election but is now “launching a full-frontal attack” according to Labor’s environment spokesman Mark Butler.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(5) Among them was James Butler, a 21-year-old acting and theatre student from Staffordshire University, who visited the park more than 60 times last year.
(6) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(7) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(8) The Butler-Sloss panel would have to examine whether Havers played down allegations of child abuse during that period.
(9) Patrick Butler is the Guardian's head of society, health and education
(10) The council fought all the way to the high court to stop Butler and Gray from getting their children back.
(11) "She has done some excellent work on child protection, but the Home Office has not managed to address the concerns about either victim confidence or conflict of interest, and Lady Butler-Sloss's decision is the right one."
(12) But reform does not lie along the lines suggested by the Butler Committee or the Criminal Law Revision Committee.
(13) The way it was used in the dossier was criticised heavily by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee and by the Butler inquiry into the use of intelligence to support an invasion of Iraq.
(14) After The Arbor's success, said Barnard, the women who would become The Selfish Giant's executive producers, Lizzie Francke at the BFI and Katherine Butler from Film4, "were fantastic about saying, 'What do you want to do next?
(15) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(16) These findings are discussed in relation to recommendations made by the Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, 1975 (Butler Report) and legislative changes introduced by the Mental Health Act 1983.
(17) This article describes one local effort to develop a monitoring system at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.
(18) The Liberals went to the election saying there was no difference between the parties on renewable energy, but they weren’t being straight with the Australian people because now they are launching a full-frontal attack,” Butler said.
(19) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(20) The bill was seconded by the Labor MP for Griffith, Terri Butler, and has support from Teresa Gambaro (LNP), Laurie Ferguson (Labor), Adam Bandt (Greens), Cathy McGowan (independent) and Andrew Wilkie (independent).
Footman
Definition:
(n.) A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
(n.) A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
(n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
(n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
(n.) A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(2) My own strong reaction to the novel stemmed from Austen's depiction of society, a world of conspicuous consumption (Sir Walter Elliot cannot stand the idea of retrenching when he mismanages his finances and prefers to leave his house rather than be seen with a footman or a picture less) and his arrogant, good-looking daughter Elizabeth can't be seen without all the props, either.
(3) His father appeared in a non-speaking role as a footman in Doctor Who.
(4) Two years ago the Queen took out an injunction against the Daily Mirror to prevent further disclosures by its reporter Ryan Parry, who spent several weeks employed at Buckingham Palace as a footman.
(5) Never was he happier than when distracting himself with the sort of quirky odds and ends that a more rigorous mind would have dismissed as insignificant, such as the people who "strengthen a sickly child's back" by rubbing it with snails, or the footman who considered enlisting in the army but "knew I should be rejected because I was getting bald".