cavaliere servente
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She seemed, indeed, to prefer him, as a cavaliere servente, to any of her other admirers, American or European.
From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 by Susan Fenimore Cooper
The social customs were mostly copied from France, except that purely Italian invention, the cavaliere servente, who was in great vogue.
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
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 William Dean Howells
"I shall elect you my cavaliere servente," said she, after I had twice nervously risen to take my leave within the first half hour, and twice been desired to remain a little longer.
From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
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