manservant
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The Italian comedian plays Diego’s mute manservant, Bernardo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sounding sturdy as Leporello, Giovanni’s manservant, the bass-baritone Adam Plachetka was less satisfying playing neutrality than was Mattei.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
The Ninth says, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2020
So he went to India and brought back a manservant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
Ari-Eil stood at attendance behind Minya’s chair, looking like a handsome manservant, but for the set of his features.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peers and commoners, shopmen and farmers, maidservants and menservants, crowded into the Gothic-vaulted Baron's Hall, eyed each other across weighted tables that stretched the whole hundred feet of the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gave it when one of the menservants announced that Char had come calling.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
When the pastor told of his mishap, they all bestirred themselves, and the menservants went out to dig the horse out of the drift.
From Jerusalem by Howard, Velma Swanston
Wharton and Fullarton both said that they should prefer going outside; and in a few minutes they were on their way, the three menservants riding inside the fly.
From Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
