manservant
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The Italian comedian plays Diego’s mute manservant, Bernardo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sounding sturdy as Leporello, Giovanni’s manservant, the bass-baritone Adam Plachetka was less satisfying playing neutrality than was Mattei.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
He began in the comics as Stephen Strange's manservant and sidekick.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
Well, yes, he is, though not all the time, fortunately, as the plot requires the Genie to blend in and pass himself off as Aladdin’s manservant.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2019
There was a small dimly lit vestibule to keep the warm air in, and standing under the lamp was a figure she recognized: Lord Asriel’s manservant Thorold, with his pinscher daemon Anfang.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Peers and commoners, shopmen and farmers, maidservants and menservants, crowded into the Gothic-vaulted Baron's Hall, eyed each other across weighted tables that stretched the whole hundred feet of the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gave it when one of the menservants announced that Char had come calling.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Then they built a room behind the solar for the daughters and the maidservants; the sons and the menservants still sleeping in the Hall.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
The menservants were instantly summoned, and sent on horseback different ways.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
