manservant
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menservants
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The Italian comedian plays Diego’s mute manservant, Bernardo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sounding sturdy as Leporello, Giovanni’s manservant, the bass-baritone Adam Plachetka was less satisfying playing neutrality than was Mattei.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
The Ninth says, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2020
Cannon: The manservant was someone who specialized in massage and bathing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
“Indeed they were, but only while getting out of the bathtub. There was some brief difficulty with the trousers, but with the help of your manservant Jasper, it was resolved.”
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peers and commoners, shopmen and farmers, maidservants and menservants, crowded into the Gothic-vaulted Baron's Hall, eyed each other across weighted tables that stretched the whole hundred feet of the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gave it when one of the menservants announced that Char had come calling.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
This is the case generally with the assessed taxes, or the charges made upon people who have menservants, private carriages, &c.
From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons
In the big house, he probably had a pallet bed in one of those upper dormitories where the menservants slept, and he doubtless fed with them in the lower hall at first.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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