cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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No cavaliere servente of Old Italy ever had so busy a time as the Tame Cat of the India of to-day.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
The conventions of the society in which she moves seem to require that she should be attended during her visits by a cavaliere servente, who is therefore always invited with her.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 by Various
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
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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Sometimes she met Felix there, who amused her after a manner by his jokes, who praised her beauty, and offered himself to her as cavaliere servente.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
