arm-shaped

Updated: April 30, 2025

Later on I found out for myself that, in this particular hotel, when you ring for the waiter or the maid the bell sounds in the service room, where those functionaries are supposed to be stationed; but when you ring for the manservant a small arm-shaped device like a semaphore drops down over your outer door. But what has the manservant done that he should be thus discriminated against?

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Europe Revised