cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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There is Domitia, who is too fond Of promenading in the colonnades and temples, where a cavaliere servente, ostensibly her business man—though he does not look like it—may regularly be seen carrying her parasol.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
Even from sheer loneliness she accepts his attentions and allows him to drop into the acknowledged position of her cavaliere servente.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon
She was an honest young woman, and she readily confessed that fluent manners and the air of the cavaliere servente were things she did not love.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
No cavaliere servente of Old Italy ever had so busy a time as the Tame Cat of the India of to-day.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
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
