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  • noun Plural form of butler.

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Examples

  • A butler cafe is the role-reversing alternative of the maid cafe: service is by immaculately dressed "butlers", all English-like with "Welcome home, Madam" and the like!

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • A butler cafe is the role-reversing alternative of the maid cafe: service is by immaculately dressed "butlers", all English-like with "Welcome home, Madam" and the like!

    Latest Japanese Trend: Weird Themed Cafes 2007

  • Really, thousands of years ago, they called them "butlers"?

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • "But as soon as his ass went through the hedges, I got on the phone and called the butlers and said, 'Ask Buddy who won at horseshoes.'

    George H. W. Bush's Sporting Life 2010

  • These were the more prominent or favorite slaves, such as butlers, coachmen, nurses, chambermaids or cooks, sometimes enjoyed this privilege.

    Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts, 1911

  • They brought personalized pampering such as butlers, luxury sedan shopping shuttles and hot stone spa treatments, all at nightly rates ranging into the high hundreds.

    ajc.com - News 2010

  • Hamilton spent most of Friday night baby-sitting a friend of hers, who accepted some "unsavory elephant appetizer from the 'butlers' on the way in."

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories By KIMBERLY NICOLETTI woodstock wannabe, at summit 2009

  • Hamilton spent most of Friday night baby-sitting a friend of hers, who accepted some "unsavory elephant appetizer from the 'butlers' on the way in."

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • And if we were there for a couple of weeks, we usually ended up not having lost that much by the time we left, especially when you figured that we went to Vegas and lived like kings and queens for two weeks, staying at the Elvis Presley suite at the Hilton, with nannies and butlers taking care of everything and the kids buying every toy at FAO Schwarz.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • Everyone knew us there, and the butlers came in to get us all set up, and they sent a babysitter up for the kids so I could go down and meet John in the casino.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

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