- plural of manservant.
menservants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Why, p. 89we never sat down to dinner without two menservants!’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Evelyn Everett-Green
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