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Underservant

Underservant \Un"der*serv`ant\, n. An inferior servant.

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underservant

n. A lower-ranking servant.

Usage examples of "underservant".

So he bribed this fellow Tarnod, whom I had the pleasure of discarnating, and who was an underservant here at the hunting lodge.

I have to be damned careful in complaining about anything, lest my complaint be the cause for a poor bastard of an underservant to suffer wealed, bruised, bleeding flesh or broken bones, simply on account of His Grace being displeased in some more than likely trivial way.

The Guard had probably gone for some underservant to give her a bit of silver and send her on her wayif she was lucky, it would be someone she could talk into giving her a job.

But Timms understood, too, that under normal circumstances an underservant would have been sent for by Hazard to deliver a message.

Sophia pitied the underservants who would be required to step in to manage things.

The Brownes were used to his indiscretions, but some of the underservants expected a more traditional household, and he did his best not to rattle them.

There were few of them, as there were few guards—the underservants who ate at the lower end of the Hall fetched their own bread and butter and breakfast ale.