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
Miss Priscilla Parry's head servant, old Nathan, took to Joan from the first.
From The Christmas Child by Street, K.
It was upon the borders of the romantic Esk I first awoke to consciousness, in the hospitable house of your grandfather, to whom my father had been head servant for many years.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
