(1) personal retainers (and sometimes relatives) of heads of houses and other exalted persons who enjoyed the status of privileged persons, and hence (2) often used of privileged persons generally.
Glossary of Cambridge-related terminology
Scholars’ servants
(1) personal retainers (and sometimes relatives) of heads of houses and other exalted persons who enjoyed the status of privileged persons, and hence (2) often used of privileged persons generally.
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