cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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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 Susan Fenimore Cooper
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 Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
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 Honoré de Balzac
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 William Dean Howells
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
