lord-in-waiting

[ lawrd-in-wey-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural lords-in-wait·ing.

First recorded in 1855–60

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet mercantile politician or a lord-in-waiting?

Two small silver bars across his left shoulder showed that he was a lord-in-waiting.

I really would rather be porter to the House than a lord-in-waiting.

At dinner, the first Lord-in-waiting took the head of the table; opposite to him, the chief Equerry-in-waiting.

The card on which her name is inscribed is then handed to another lord-in-waiting, who reads the name aloud.

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