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Definition of Body servant
1. Noun. A valet or personal maid.
Specialized synonyms: Gentleman, Gentleman's Gentleman, Man, Valet, Valet De Chambre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Servant
Literary usage of Body servant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH THE stirring part of
... The name of the famous body-servant of General Washington was George. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"TOM STROTHER, MY body servant ... As under feudal institutions the arms of
heiresses were quartered with those of the families into which they married, ..."
3. Typee: Areal Romance of the South Sea by Herman Melville (1892)
"Midnight Reflections — Morning Visitors — A Warrior in Costume — A Savage ^Esculapius —
Practice of the Healing Art — body servant— A Dwelling-house of the ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Virgil, Charles Anthon, C. Knipe, New York (State). Banking Dept, Emerson Willard Keyes, Mark Twain, Claire Giannini Hoffman (1903)
"GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT • A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH THE stirring part
... The name of the famous body-servant of General Washington was George. ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH THE stirring part of
... The name of the famous body-servant of General Washington was George. ..."
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