head servant

Example Sentences

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Bib Fortuna: Jabba the Hutt’s majordomo — or head servant — who took over his master’s criminal empire upon his death.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2022

Anna’s head servant, who lived next door, came out, and Ernest asked her, “Do you know where Anna is?”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

“I see Rigoletto as a major-domo in the entourage of a powerful Mussolini type. Rigoletto is kind of a head servant, like Carson from ‘Downton Abbey.’

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2013

Did He order His sun to shine, merely that a poor man, Taras Barabola, should become head servant of Iwan Woronka's at Zulawce, and not of that priest to whom I might have gone?

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

Edith, who being now the head servant of many instead of three was more than double as hard-worked as she used to be, was on her feet those last few days without stopping.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth