archchamberlain

English

Etymology

From arch- +‎ chamberlain.

Noun

archchamberlain (plural archchamberlains)

1. A chief chamberlain; an officer of the old German Empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “archchamberlain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)