gentleman's gent-leman

gentleman's gentleman

noun
a valet.
Origin:
1715–25

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gentleman's gentleman

noun
a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet] 
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