cavaliere servente
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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
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 Howells, William Dean
Corte'jo, a cavaliere servente, who as Byron says in Beppo: Coach, servants, gondola, must go to call, And carries fan and tippet, gloves and shawl.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
At Ravenna, he frequented all the salons where he was introduced; and at the request of Count G——, became the cavaliere servente of the young countess.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir
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
