body servant

English

Noun

body servant (plural body servants)

  1. A close servant; a personal attendant.
    Hyponym: dresser
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 64:
      He called one of his body servants, Anthony Willoughby, the son of Henry VII's lord steward, to bring him a cup of ale, ‘for I have this night been in the midst of Spain’.
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