Dictionary entry

Cupbearer

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cup″bear′er (–bâr′ẽr), n. 1. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.

2. (Antiq.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. “I was the king's cupbearer.” Neh. i. 11.