cavaliere servente
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"So you are not going?" cried the blonde beauty, who was particularly anxious that her cavaliere servente should be in attendance on this occasion.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
A cavaliere servente to dance attendance on her ladyship day and night?
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
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)
Teresa Mocenni at Siena, and relates to the death of Mario Bianchi, who had long been her devoted cavaliere servente.
From The Countess of Albany by Lee, Vernon
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
