What is "menservants"

Usage examples of "menservants".

Instead of having lay monks live with him at the villa, he had a young soldier and three menservants to attend him, and to the curious who inquired with some surprise whether the occupant of the villa was a priest or a layman, the Abbot gravely explained that the servants were not his but those of a person of high rank from Kyoto, who was visiting him.

In the half-light of the dawn monks, menservants, serving-women, and farming folk from the temple estates lined the driveway and crowded the gates sorrowing, and among that throng stood Asatori, craning for a last sight of his master.

Freddie was dragged out by one of the menservants, and then she was paraded in front of the other girls as an example of what would happen to any girl who dared to be insolent.

She drew back into the shadow of the inn courtyard as she recognized the squat figure of Miss Cassandra Hope coming along the street with the two menservants from the seminary.

The two menservants had just entered the inn yard and were questioning the landlord.

The menservants from the seminary had not seen her before, and luckily Miss Cassandra was not with them.

At once the proprietor and maids and menservants hurried out with lanterns, bowing and anxious to please, honored with the majesty of their expected guest.

Abundant silver on refectory table, liveried menservants behind each chair, others to bring in huge quantities of meats and borscht and beets and pies and jugs of iced vodka, champagne and French wines and sorbets.

The other side of the moat where the Yoshiwara had been, clusters of women and cooks and menservants sat or stood around the only partial structure still standing, canvas screens up as shelter.

With most of the menservants from Woburton House scattered among the audience, the groundlings had lost interest in badgering her, turning for entertainment to the painted pretties in their midst.

Following on foot now came the long line of menservants, headed by the bailiff, and the butler, and behind them the farmers, and the tenants.

While they worked, she made friends with one of the menservants and got him to introduce her to the various servitors, particularly to the head groom, a stocky fellow, mostly bald, named Riderrc.

Pompey and his menservants went through every item one by one-would it be useful, was it going to be necessary?

Except for Cei and two menservants he had glimpsed, there appeared no others here.

On the threshold she hesitated, because out in the main ward the grooms, pages, and menservants were leading the stabled horses out to drink in the watering troughs, so many that she might get kicked or stepped upon in the confusion.