cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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If suspicion rested on two or three of her intimates, we might say that one or other of them was the "cavaliere servente"; but it does not.
From Madame Firmiani by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Sometimes she met Felix there, who amused her after a manner by his jokes, who praised her beauty, and offered himself to her as cavaliere servente.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
The cavaliere servente was extinct early in this century; and men and women opened their eyes upon an era of work, the most industrious age that the world has ever seen.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
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 Sir Walter Scott
My fascinating father, who treats me with the devotion of an Italian cavaliere servente for his lady, had my portrait painted, as I told you, by Mme. de Mirbel.
From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
