manciple 的定义
- an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
manciple 近义词
等同于 steward
更多manciple例句
- Used ludicrously to mean a feat of horsemanship in l. 50 of the Manciple's Prologue.
- One of Chaucer's pilgrims is a manciple of the Temple, of whom he gives a good character for his skill in purveying.
- The Manciple bowed himself from the dais and went down the middle of the hall, his keys rattling at his belt.
- In the old black-letter editions, which retain this Epilogue, it is followed by the Manciple's Prologue.
- The Prologue is self-explanatory; we see how the responsibility passed from the Cook to the Manciple.