manservant
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In Note 35, she finds a role model in Victor Hugo, who, Ms. McCracken tells us, asked his manservant to take all his clothes, forcing him to stay home and write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He was his manservant, but more than that, he was his fixer, and he used to specifically deal with Prince Charles' love life and his girlfriends.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
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
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
In the middle of the table was a vase filled with flowers that Nathan, our manservant, had picked.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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
P: And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden pearls.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
And Jacob increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.
From Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students by Soares, Theodore Gerald
