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Pantryman

noun
(pl. pantrymen)
1.
A manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table.  Synonym: butler.






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"Pantryman" Quotes from Famous Books



... hot and palpitant and arid to the end. And autumn came gently with cool, foggy mornings and days of sunshine mellowed like old gold. Fred Starratt rose in rapid succession to the position of pantryman, head waiter to the attendants, assistant bookkeeper in the office. He was given more and more freedom. Indeed, between the working intervals, undisturbed by even a formal surveillance, he and Monet fell to taking walks far afield. He found the shorter days more tolerable. With dusk coming on rapidly, ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... in the fairway," protested a grizzled man, evidently the mate. He was uneasy in his borrowed clothes—he had surrendered his own garments to a pantryman who had volunteered ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... the midst of them all stands Smaeus,[712] dressed as a knight, washing the crockery. And Geres[713] has come, dressed in a grand tunic and finely shod; he is joking with another young fellow and has already divested himself of his heavy shoes and his cloak.[714] The pantryman is waiting, so come ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al



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