| 词汇 | example_english_male-servant |
| 释义 | male servantcollocation in Englishmeanings of maleand servantThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with servant. male adjective uk /meɪl/ us /meɪl/ belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ... See more at male 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 ... See more at servant Examples of male servantThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The luxury aspect of the maleservant was emphasised by the levying of the servant tax. 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'). Equally, engaging a maleservant for farm work also meant engaging his wife in the dairy sector. The third point, which has been referred to already, is that of the maleservant tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The butler, as the senior maleservant, has the highest servant status. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It documents the story of a maleservant, who must fully repair a pool, while acting as a surrogate father to the master's daughter. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They even go to the extent of hiring a maleservant to stay in the house. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The young maleservant she asked to deliver the letter drew out of her the cause for her sadness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were also skeletons of a young maleservant and a cow. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A maleservant performing the tasks described above would be called a scullion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Margarete goes to a window and taps on it to summon the bearish maleservant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. Families in rural areas usually had male servants as well. 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. Rhodes was so averse to women that he hired only male servants. 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. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of male Go to the definition of servant See other collocations with servant |
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