cavaliere servente

There she had as cavaliere servente M. Fabre, the painter, who had lived with her since the death of Alfieri.

They were going to the supper room, and each cavaliere servente was hastening to seat himself by the side of his partner.

Has not he lately married a young woman; and was not he Madame Talleyrand's cavaliere servente in India years ago?

"So this is your daily cavaliere servente," added M. M., with a wry smile, turning his lorgnette upon me.

As far as I can understand, that was the case with the heroine of my tale and her cavaliere servente.