Meanings of superior servant in English

Radmore had taken the woman for a superior servant.

A superior servant inquired his name with a stately composure that disdained to be supercilious.

Was she a relative, or a superior servant?

She treated him like a superior servant.

He was a servant, so she was a dog; but a superior servant, so a superior dog.

The gray-faced youth sprawled upon the pavement was decently dressed and was obviously of the superior servant type.

To the first glance she was more like a superior servant out for a holiday, but a second glance was bewildering.

I can still see Hawkins as Sperry let him in-a tall, cadaverous man of good manners and an English accent, a superior servant.

Becky stepped aside respectfully to allow the superior servants to pass out first.

'I thought Frampton was a very valuable superior servant.'

Housemaids and still-room maids would giggle, and kitchen-maids and boot-boys would grin and whisper in servile tribute to the witticisms of the superior servants.