▪ I. † cuˈbicular, n. Obs.
Also 5–7 -er, -air, -are.
[ad. OF. cubiculaire, ad. L. cubiculārius (a. and n.) cubiculary, f. cubiculum bedchamber; see -ar2.]
An attendant in a bedchamber; a groom of the bedchamber; a chamberlain. Chiefly Sc.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. vi. 24 Hyr Cubiculare By hyr lay, and gat a Barne. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 82/2 The lord comanded hys cubyculyers that she [Judith] shold goo and come at her playsir. a 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 573 Sensualitie..Quhilk to Venus was richt cheif Cubiculair. a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. v. (1677) 236 Monsieur Verac, Cubiculare to the French King. 1873 Burton Hist. Scot. V. lx. 299 With the zealots of the church on one side and the ‘cubiculars’ of the court on the other. |
▪ II. cubicular, a.
(kjuːˈbɪkjʊlə(r))
[ad. L. cubiculār-is, f. cubiculum cubicle.]
Of or belonging to a bedchamber.
| 1611 Cotgr., Cubiculaire, cubicular, belonging to the bedchamber. c 1645 Howell Lett. I. vi. xxxii, For his privat cubicular devotions. Ibid. iv. xvi. (1892) 583 Being the inseparable Cubicular Companion. 1768 Life & Advent. Sir B. Sapskull I. 127 Cubicular devotion. |