cavaliere servente

I had detected under a blond wig, in entering, the young ambassador of a foreign court, who being cavaliere servente to one of the most beautiful women in Florence, certainly had no right to the amusement of the hour.

The cavaliere servente flourishes still as in the days of Beppo, and it is to him only that the lady condescends to talk.

Even from sheer loneliness she accepts his attentions and allows him to drop into the acknowledged position of her cavaliere servente.

Cicisbeo, chē-chēs-bā′o, n. a married woman's gallant or cavaliere servente in Italy:—pl.

M. came out by another door, and immediately afterwards coming towards us appeared her self-satisfied husband, who was returning from the garden, after just escorting into it quite a crowd of ladies and there handing them over to a competent cavaliere servente.