Also 8–9 kid-, kis(t)-, 9 k(h)itmutgar; 8 khidmidgar, 9 khid-, khitmatgar, khid-, khed-, khitmutghar, khitmutkar, etc. [Urdū (from Pers.) khidmatgār, = khidmat service + -gār, agent-suffix.] In India: A male servant who waits at table.
1765. Holwell, Hist. Events (1766), I. 60. They were taken into the service of Soujah Dowla…: Hodjee, in capacity of his first Kistmutgar (or valet).
1776. Trial of Nundocomar, 56/1. Q. Who came with Bollakey Doss? A. He came alone, only his kidmutgar.
1824. [Sherer], Sketches in India, 247. His father had been a Khidmutgar to a British Colonel.
1873. Miss Thackeray, Wks. (1891), I. 269–70. A Kitmutghar who had drained off a bottle of her eau-de-Cologne.
