cavaliere servente

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With forlorn dejection at one moment, and with irritated susceptibility at another, he saw this handsome young soldier assume and exercise all the privileges of a cavaliere servente.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

A cavaliere servente to dance attendance on her ladyship day and night?

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

"You can't have Captain Vauvenarde for your husband, Dale for your cavaliere servente, and myself for your guide, philosopher and friend all at the same time."

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

But it did not matter so much about the husband if the marriage contract stipulated that she should have her cavaliere servente, and, as sometimes happened, specified him by name.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

Corte'jo, a cavaliere servente, who as Byron says in Beppo: Coach, servants, gondola, must go to call, And carries fan and tippet, gloves and shawl.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham