| 单词 | cavalier-servant |
| 释义 | > as lemmascavalier-servant 5. cavalier-servant, or in Italian form cavaliere-servente (French cavalier-servant): a man who devotes himself wholly to attendance on a lady as her professed slave, either from love or from gratitude. Hence cavalier servitude, cavaliere-serventism (nonce-formations). ΘΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > devotion or attendance on a lady cavalier servitude1818 cavaliere-serventism1878 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > devotion or attendance on a lady > man devoted to attendance on lady cavalier-servant1818 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxvii. 19 ‘Cavalier Servente’ is the phrase Used in politest circles to express This supernumerary slave, who stays Close to the lady as a part of dress. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 21 Feb. (1977) VII. 42 The Conventual education—the Cavalier Servitude. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX li. 30 Which hovers oft about some married Beauties, Called ‘Cavalier Servente’. 1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 38 Neither married life nor conventional cavaliere-serventism was prolific of inspiration. < as lemmas |
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