cavaliere servente

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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

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

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

There is Domitia, who is too fond Of promenading in the colonnades and temples, where a cavaliere servente, ostensibly her business man—though he does not look like it—may regularly be seen carrying her parasol.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

But it did not matter so much about the husband if the marriage contract stipulated that she should have her cavaliere servente, and, as sometimes happened, specified him by name.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

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