Manservant
['mænsɜːv(ə)nt] or ['mænsɝvənt]
Definition
(n.) A male servant.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- The elderly manservant, Crowther, appeared in the doorway exasperatedly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Send to the Angel for Mr. Pickwick's manservant, I implore you, ma'am. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He must be respectable--he keeps a manservant,' said Miss Tomkins to the writing and ciphering governess. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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