Definition of "cupbearer" [cup•bear•er]

• One who fills and distributes cups of wine, as in a royal household. (noun)

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• "His youngest daughter, Hebe, goddess of beauty and youth—sometimes known as the patron goddess of the young bride and an attendant of the goddess Aphrodite—was his cupbearer."
• "Among the prisoners were Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer."
• "Can this possibly be the same vibrant woman as the appealingly windswept Hebe, cupbearer to the gods, who here stands, sedate, a society matron in a subdued gown, her hairdo impossibly high, in a lovely garden, plucking blooms from a rosebush, looking off into the distance, whilst her spaniel gazes adoringly at her feet?"