butlership

English

Etymology

From Middle English buttlershipe, equivalent to butler +‎ -ship.

Noun

butlership (countable and uncountable, plural butlerships)

  1. The rank, office, or position of a butler.
    • 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
      A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
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