slardral

Updated: June 2, 2025

While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a slardral, or gentleman-usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither, for the diversion of the queen and her ladies. Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behavior, and good sense.

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels: Into Several Remote Regions of the World