cavaliere servente
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A cavaliere servente to dance attendance on her ladyship day and night?
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
"So this is your daily cavaliere servente," added M. M., with a wry smile, turning his lorgnette upon me.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The cavaliere servente flourishes still as in the days of Beppo, and it is to him only that the lady condescends to talk.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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
My fascinating father, who treats me with the devotion of an Italian cavaliere servente for his lady, had my portrait painted, as I told you, by Mme. de Mirbel.
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
