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Gentleman's gentleman   /dʒˈɛntəlmˌənz dʒˈɛntəlmən/   Listen
Gentleman's gentleman

noun
1.
A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.  Synonyms: gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre.






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"Gentleman's gentleman" Quotes from Famous Books



... was naturally disappointed. He abused the critics and the public. Perhaps he grew somewhat soured. He did not hesitate in The Romany Rye to talk candidly about those "ill-favoured dogs . . . the newspaper editors," and he made the gentleman's gentleman of Lavengro describe how he was excluded from the Servants' Club in Park Lane because his master followed a profession "so mean as literature." In fact as a reaction from the unfriendly reception accorded to the Romany Rye—now ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter

... I am Mr. Bennett's personal gentleman's gentleman. Miss Bennett entrusted me with this note ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... aspect did not foster curiosity, could pretend to say. Perhaps Mr. Smith, the landlord, was as much concerned as any; when he learned the state of the case, he fell to mental arithmetic with the assistance of his fingers, and at times looked blank. Counting up the earl and his gentleman, and his gentleman's gentleman, and his secretary, and his private secretary, and his physician, and his three friends and their gentlemen, and my lady and her woman, and the children and nurses, and a crowd of others, he could not see where to-morrow's travellers were to lie, supposing the minister remained. ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... as his master," said Miss Elizabeth, glancing at Harrison discontentedly; "but he does not look like a married man, somehow. I'll just step up stairs and change my cap: it would be but civil if the gentleman's gentleman sups with us." ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Words linked to "Gentleman's gentleman" :   body servant, manservant, valet, man



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