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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A male servant, especially a valet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A man who is a servant.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A male servant.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A male servant.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a man servant

Etymologies

  1. man +‎ servant (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “One manservant is called the baker, and does nothing but brew and bake.”

    Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends

  • “My little English cook, too, returns home with her, and my manservant is going back to Ireland to his own family.”

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

  • “I will call my manservant, and we will draw up the contract.”

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold

  • “The manservant was the only slave she saw as they walked up the heavily tree-shaded lane to the door.”

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold

  • “She longed to call her manservant to turn the fellow out of doors, but she dared not.”

    The Scarlet Feather

  • “Independently of my wish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for years to come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by his manservant is a monstrous absurdity.”

    The Pickwick papers

  • “‘Independently of my wish that you should not be idling about a place like this, for years to come, I feel that for a debtor in the Fleet to be attended by his manservant is a monstrous absurdity.”

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

  • “They are now trying to communicate with their new manservant, which is how they see you, since you are quite clearly not their mother. ”

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  • “In 2008, the Opposition accused Mr Rudd of having a "manservant" to shine his shoes and put out his clothes in the morning while travelling.”

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

  • “Merlin also finds himself as the manservant to Prince Arthur (Bradley James) who treats him with disdain, but who also shows him a sense of friendship and loyalty.”

    29 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy

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