cavaliere servente

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

Lord Lyttelton was my cavaliere servente that evening, though, as usual, his chief attention was paid to Mr. Robinson.

From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Mary Robinson

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

For this reason she always regards us as cavaliere servente to the house of Hapsburg.

From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

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 T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker