cavaliere servente

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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

"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 Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

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)

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

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 Cooper, Susan Fenimore