train-bearer🔊

An attendant who supports the train of a dignitary.

💬 Quotations

Supported by his train-bearers and attendants, and leaning on his golden staff, he with raucous accent delivered his mission: […]

E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

This fellow, I say, stiled himself a lawyer, but was indeed a most vile petty-fogger, without sense or knowledge of any kind; one of those who may be termed train-bearers to the law […]

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling