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BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the See also:Late See also:Lat. buticularius, buticula, a See also:bottle)  , a domestic servant who superintends the See also:wine-cellar and acts as the See also:chief male servant of a See also:household; among his other duties are the conduct of the service of the table and the custody of the See also:plate . The See also:butler of a royal household was an See also:official of high See also:rank, whose duties, though primarily connected with the See also:supply of wine for the royal table, varied in the different courts in which the See also:office appears, In See also:England, as See also:superintendent of the importation of wine, a See also:duty was payable to him (see BUTLERAGE AND PRISAGE); the butler-See also:ship of See also:Ireland, Pincerna Hiberniae, was given by See also:John, See also:king of England, to See also:Theobald See also:Walter, who added the name of Butler to his own; it then became the surname of his descendants, the earls, See also:dukes and marquesses of See also:Ormonde (see BUTLER, See also:family, above) .

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