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Dapifer   Listen
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Dapifer  n.  One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.






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"Dapifer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the arrow industry. If this is true, I should say that Setter might represent the Old Fr, saieteur, arrow-maker, from saiete, an arrow, Lat. sagitta. But in a medieval vocabulary we find "setter of mes, dapifer," which would make it the same as Sewer (Chapter XV). Similarly, when we consider the number of objects that can be tipped, we shall be shy of defining the activity of the Tipper too closely. Trinder, earlier trenden, is from Mid. ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley



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