male servant

collocation in English

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male
adjective
uk
/meɪl/us
/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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servant
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.vənt/us
/ˈsɝː.vənt/
a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in ...
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(Definition ofmaleandservantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmale servant

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The luxury aspect of themaleservantwas emphasised by the levying of the servant tax.
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Other household chores are handled by the butler, bearer or boy; the second-boy, house-boy, verandah-boy, room-boy, room-service-boy, and dressing-boy (where boy means 'maleservant').
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Equally, engaging amaleservantfor farm work also meant engaging his wife in the dairy sector.
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The third point, which has been referred to already, is that of themaleservanttax.
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The butler, as the seniormaleservant, has the highest servant status.
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It documents the story of amaleservant, who must fully repair a pool, while acting as a surrogate father to the master's daughter.
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They even go to the extent of hiring amaleservantto stay in the house.
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The youngmaleservantshe asked to deliver the letter drew out of her the cause for her sadness.
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There were also skeletons of a youngmaleservantand a cow.
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Amaleservantperforming the tasks described above would be called a scullion.
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These households were primarily feminine households with no spouses, sons, grandsons, brothers or other male kin, although several had male servants.
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Margarete goes to a window and taps on it to summon the bearishmaleservant.
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Maids account for 16.3 per cent of all individual female observations in the registers and male servants comprise 38 per cent of all male observations.
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Families in rural areas usually had male servants as well.
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They employed between 5 and 8 servants, and most of their households were sufficiently unassuming to escape the tax on male servants levied in 1777.
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Rhodes was so averse to women that he hired only male servants.
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Amongst possible causes is the unlikely case that the leading classes lost interest in having male servants as a symbol of luxury, ostentation, power and riches.
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