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Definition of Chamberlain
Chamberlain

An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.

An upper servant of an inn.

An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.

A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.

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Chamberlain Quotations

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
Timothy West

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
Dennis Rodman

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
Timothy West

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Bernhard von Bulow

Chamberlain Translations

chamberlain in French is chambellan
chamberlain in German is Kammerherr
chamberlain in Italian is ciambellano
chamberlain in Latin is cubicularius
chamberlain in Swedish is kammarherre


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