cavaliere servente
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Near the convent-gate they met a Mr. Gahagan, an Irish Jacobite and the official cavaliere servente of Mme.
From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee
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 Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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
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 R. S. Greig
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 Gordon Casserly
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