Obs. Also 5–7 -er, -air, -are. [ad. OF. cubiculaire, ad. L. cubiculārius (a. and sb.) 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.
