cavaliere servente

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The social customs were mostly copied from France, except that purely Italian invention, the cavaliere servente, who was in great vogue.

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

If suspicion rested on two or three of her intimates, we might say that one or other of them was the "cavaliere servente"; but it does not.

From Madame Firmiani by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

They were going to the supper room, and each cavaliere servente was hastening to seat himself by the side of his partner.

From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by Greig, R. S.

Has not he lately married a young woman; and was not he Madame Talleyrand's cavaliere servente in India years ago?

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas