chamberlain
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The most notable figure in the room is Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is the Pope's "camerlengo" or chamberlain and runs the Vatican until a new Pope is chosen.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
After the death of a reigning pope, the person in charge of ordinary affairs at the Vatican until the election of a new pope is the camerlengo, or chamberlain.
From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022
This alienated his family members, who grew resentful of the power of Askia’s head chamberlain, Ali Fulan.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
During that period, known as the “sede vacante,” or “empty See,” the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rather than handing her children over to court chamberlains to raise, she cared for them herself.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
The few other people in the room were members of the imperial family, court chamberlains, ladies-in-waiting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaders of the two houses of Parliament and the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
This is a man in mid-thought, quick with watchful intelligence, on equal terms with the painter; indeed, they were both chamberlains at the Spanish court.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2016
Wherever he went the chamberlains followed, and he seemed unable to make the simplest decision without consulting them.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the chamberlains showed me some of the most curious old bowls and flagons.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
