as in manservant
a man employed in in the home of a wealthy person to perform various personal services and to be in charge of other household employees
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Recent Examples of butler
For those prepared to pay, the varied accommodation options within Yacht Club all come with 24-hour butler service.
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David Nikel, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Some of the stand-out amenities include a shuttle service with routes into town and the Aspen airport, a heated salt-water pool and hot tub, and ski butler service.
—Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
Ensemble members, in black-and-white streetwear, carry cameras mounted on Steadicam frames, shooting live closeups of the main characters: Scherzinger’s Norma; the screenwriter Joe (Tom Francis); and Max (David Thaxton), Norma’s butler and chief enabler.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Each Queens Grill suite comes with a butler, niceties inside the suites, and special tables at the exclusive Queens Grill Restaurant and other events.
—Heather Steinberger, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
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David Nikel, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Some of the stand-out amenities include a shuttle service with routes into town and the Aspen airport, a heated salt-water pool and hot tub, and ski butler service.
—Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
Ensemble members, in black-and-white streetwear, carry cameras mounted on Steadicam frames, shooting live closeups of the main characters: Scherzinger’s Norma; the screenwriter Joe (Tom Francis); and Max (David Thaxton), Norma’s butler and chief enabler.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Each Queens Grill suite comes with a butler, niceties inside the suites, and special tables at the exclusive Queens Grill Restaurant and other events.
—Heather Steinberger, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butler
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The show is sharpest when its sights are fixed on Norma and Joe, and also on the looming figure of Norma’s manservant and eternal enabler, Max.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
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The dialogue is witty and the characters are memorable, particularly Boris Karloff as hulking manservant Morgan.Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
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Smith is continuing to appeal U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal of the case with Trump's two co-defendants, his longtime valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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There is a gear valet for winter and summer, as well as nearly 10,000 square feet of space for meetings, weddings and social events.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Instead of facing what Alondra is saying, Yasmin strides out of the room and instructs Henry Muck’s footman to fire the secretary.Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
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Bennett gained some experience at Buckingham Palace as a part-time footman (a lower-ranking role) before quitting the force.Peter Rubin, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
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The former dining room, where there’s an outlet in the floor that was used to connect to a bell for servants, is now the library.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 3 Dec. 2024
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In the early decades, over the summer break, some students were sent to work as servants in white homes.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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His mother moved the family to Malden, W.Va., where Washington worked as a salt packer, coal miner and houseboy.Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
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Between this new doc, the premiere of Porsha Williams’s new spinoff, the new season of RHOC, Nicki Minaj hosting the RHOP reunion, the RHOM trailer, and the finale of Winter House, the Institute is busier than Andy Cohen’s houseboy during a holiday weekend.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
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Wilson Medina works two jobs: as a houseman at the Sheraton Universal Hotel and as a mechanic.Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
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Each comes with a personal houseman who helps attune every meal and experience to each guest’s tastes.Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2023
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The eclipse was scheduled to begin at 11:35 a.m., so the bride, 31, and groom, 39, told their 100 guests to arrive at their wedding as early as possible in anticipation of heavy traffic and cars that may pull over on the sides of the country roads for the eclipse.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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But her perfect life is violently upended on her wedding day when a group of hitmen storms the celebration, killing her groom.Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Fresh off his San Vicente Bungalows run, Dimitri Dimitrov was back on hand as Tower Bar’s majordomo.Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
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Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, Toby Jones, and Paul Walter Hauser all drop by to add their touches to an underworld majordomo, a dogged BPD Special Ops officer, a political toady and Boston’s single dumbest thug, respectively.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Butler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butler. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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