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Meaning of gentleman's gentleman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A valet or a man's personal manservant.

British

Examples

“Touchwood was by no means critically nice in his society, but was observed to converse as readily with a gentleman's gentleman, as with the gentleman to whom he belonged.”
“[H]e put it away and, ringing the bell, demanded his valet. . . . In due time came a discreet knock and thereafter a discreet person entered, tall, quick-eyed, low-voiced, soft-stepping, he was a very model of a fashionable gentleman's gentleman.”
“[H]e estimates that only 50 aristocrats still employ domestic staff (less than the number of London-based Russian plutocrats employing a gentleman's gentleman).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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