servitor
Americannoun
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a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
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a glass worker who blocks the gather and does the preliminary blowing of glass for the gaffer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of servitor
1300–50; Middle English servitour < Anglo-French < Late Latin servītor, equivalent to Latin servī ( re ) to serve + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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He banged on the reinforced steel door, which slid aside to reveal a human servitor, a middle-aged woman, dressed wholly in white, with a slave-collar around her neck.
From Nature
Most Cheney watchers, including Bush, believe that Cheney changed from an utterly reliable servitor into an ideologue, partly as a result of the September 11th attacks.
From The New Yorker
They had rattish pointed faces and tiny pink hands, like the servitor who had brought her the glass of shade.
From Literature
One of his confidential servitors was a certain Berenger, who had been condemned for heresy.
From Project Gutenberg
Diego offered himself for the purpose and was accepted, whereupon he sent his servitors home, retaining only his sub-prior, Domingo de Guzman, who had already, on the voyage towards Rome, converted a heretic in Toulouse.
From Project Gutenberg
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