menservants

[ men-sur-vuh nts ]

/ ˈmɛnˌsɜr vənts /

plural of manservant.

Words nearby menservants

manservant

[ man-sur-vuh nt ]

/ ˈmænˌsɜr vənt /

a male servant, especially a valet.

First recorded in 1545–55; man¹ + servant

And they—and they killed Hector and Claudio and Apollonio and the other menservants.

The Saracen: The Holy War |Robert Shea
Their best-dressed men are apparently turned out not by menservants but by modistes.

Ruggles of Red Gap |Harry Leon Wilson
Send up one of the menservants, and he would come down at a moment's warning.

Elsie Venner |Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; the men and women had separated as in church.

War and Peace |Leo Tolstoy

Before very long we shall train an army of menservants, and send the women to the devil.'

The Whirlpool |George Gissing

manservant

/ (ˈmænˌsɜːvənt) /

a male servant, esp a valet