manservant
Americannoun
PLURAL
menservantsnoun
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Origin of manservant
Example Sentences
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New workers are corralled daily into a room nicknamed “the inferno” where they are trained to please men, practicing on the house’s young, unwilling manservants as their peers look on.
From New York Times
His loyal manservant Walt Nauta was charged, along with Trump, with five counts of concealing or withholding documents and taking part in a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
From Salon
Obviously, impeachment is off the table with the House in the hands of Marjorie Taylor Greene and her loyal manservant Kevin McCarthy.
From Salon
He began in the comics as Stephen Strange's manservant and sidekick.
From Salon
A young Black “manservant” for a white family, who called him “Humpy” because of a back deformity.
From New York Times
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