body servant

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body servant Meaning of "body servant"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a valet or personal maid

Usage(s):

  1. He is York, William Clark's body servantslavery's version of a valet.
  2. Daddy, as he is called, is not only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant.
  3. The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin.
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