servantry

Related to servantry: servitude, servantship

servantry

(ˈsɜːvəntrɪ)
n, pl -ries
servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
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Servantry

a body of servants, 1860. See also retinue.
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It was evidently the gentleman's wish not to be disturbed in this pleasant TETE-A-TETE by the servantry.
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The need for labor in Great Britain's North American colonies and the lucrative-ness of the maritime trade industry may explain why colonists saw nothing incongruent with exchanging commodities for servantry. After all, as Ginzberg and Eichner remind us, before 1776, close to 80 percent of the millions of persons who arrived in the colonies were under some form of servitude.
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