menservants
Americannoun
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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
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
She gave it when one of the menservants announced that Char had come calling.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
There was none of the airy talk that goes on in the houses of the rich while maids or menservants come respectfully to right or left of the diners with decanters or dishes.
From Nocturne by Swinnerton, Frank
All the menservants had run out into the streets after news of the progress of the fire, and the women were scared by their absence.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn
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