primus

• The primus was his valet, a servant found in every Viennese household at the time. —  Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words
• I know we fell asleep if we waited in the comparatively warm tent when the primus was alight--with our pannikins or the primus in our hands. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
• "Now as to my mode of life: As soon as you were gone I played two games of billiards with Herr von Mozart who wrote the opera for Schickaneder's theatre; then I sold my nag for fourteen ducats; then I had Joseph call my primus and bring a black coffee, to which I smoked a glorious pipe of tobacco .... —  Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words
• I know we fell asleep if we waited in the comparatively warm tent when the primus was alight -- with our pannikins or the primus in our hands. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
• (Both are related to Latin primus ` first. ') —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3

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