Meanings (ES + gloss)
lacayo
An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and thei…
“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler,…