ARCHDAP'IFER, noun [Arch, chief, and Latin dapifer, a food-bearer, from daps, meat or a feast, and fero, to carry.] An officer in the German empire, whose office is, at the coronation of the emperor, to carry the first dish of meat to table on horseback.
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