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David Calladine
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teacher | Report | 18 Apr 2004 14:42 |
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Butler is a medieval profession name: The person who was a wine steward, and the senior servant in the medieval household. The name derives from the Old French, bouteillier, or bottle bearer, and it is where we get our English name for a bottle from. In the Tudor period, at court the Bouteilliers, who tended the wine, were formed from Yeomanry. This honour guard around the king, and because this post was well fed, the name got bastardised to beef-eater, a post still maintained at the Tower of London. As middle classes arose, from the traders and merchants, so the role of butler was transformed into that of both a wine steward, and head table waiter. |
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