body servant

English

Noun

body servant (plural body servants)

1. A close servant; a personal attendant.

   Hyponym: dresser

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 64:

     He called one of his body servants, Anthony Willoughby, the son of Henry VII's lord steward, to bring him a cup of ale, ‘for I have this night been in the midst of Spain’.