cavaliere servente

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Near the convent-gate they met a Mr. Gahagan, an Irish Jacobite and the official cavaliere servente of Mme.

From The Countess of Albany by Lee, Vernon

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

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

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

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

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

"I shall elect you my cavaliere servente," said she, after I had twice nervously risen to take my leave within the first half hour, and twice been desired to remain a little longer.

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford