All 6 Uses of
apprentice
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Bustle and hurry of scullions, fat cooks, and diminutive apprentices, their caps profusely decorated with cock's feathers and wings of guinea-fowl.†
Act 2
- (To another, showing him an unfinished pasty): To this palace of paste you must add the roof... (To a young apprentice, who, seated on the ground, is spitting the fowls): And you, as you put on your lengthy spit the modest fowl and the superb turkey, my son, alternate them, as the old Malherbe loved well to alternate his long lines of verse with the short ones; thus shall your roasts, in strophes, turn before the flame†
Act 2
- ANOTHER APPRENTICE (also coming up with a tray covered by a napkin): Master, I bethought me erewhile of your tastes, and made this, which will please you, I hope.†
Act 2
- THE APPRENTICE: 'Tis of brioche pastry.†
Act 2 *
- THE APPRENTICE: The strings, see, are of sugar.†
Act 2
- 'Twill lesson well (He stops before the table where Christian is seated): This timid young apprentice!†
Act 2
Definition:
one who works for an expert to learn a trade; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work