[F.:—earlier chamberlanc, chambellanc, a. OHG. chamarlinc, f. OHG. chamara.] The French form of CHAMBERLAIN, used as a foreign title.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4724/1. The Grand Chambellan was seized with a … Fever.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, I. xxxv. 286. A spoilt man of the world is no more at his ease in the ordinary course of society … than a stiff German chambellan, in a full suit of buckram.
