The word houseman is correct and usable in written English.
The word refers to a male servant or a butler in charge of a large house. For example, "The houseman had been working in the mansion for over twenty years, so he was quite familiar with the family's routines and customs."
Just before Midway Gardens opened, Wright was dealt a crushing blow; Cheney and her children, who were visiting her at Taliesin, and four others were killed by an insane houseman, and the living quarters of the house were devastated by fire.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a woman referred to as Jean Baker, who was trapped in a self-service elevator in her six-story house in Madison Ave . from Saturday morning until Monday morning when her houseman came on duty.
He wanted to take the job of a houseman at $25 a week until the debt was paid.
Mrs. B. had planned to spend the weekend in the country & let her maid & houseman off the weekend.
morning, she went to the basement to open the furnace draft, though the houseman had told her that there would be enough heat for hot water until he returned Monday.
On Monday morning, the writer's boss at the Biltmore Hotel, Mr. Carey, told him that he'd have a very important job as a houseman.
More widely seen was The Paper Chase (1973), a drama about a Harvard Law School freshman (Timothy Bottoms) who struggles to survive the rigours of his course work with the demanding Professor Kingsfield John Housemann, who won an Academy Award for his role) while courting the professor's free-spirited daughter (Lindsay Wagner).
It took producer John Houseman almost a decade to bring Irving Stone's best-selling fictionalized biography of van Gogh to the screen.
Following high school, she enrolled in the drama division of the Juilliard School, which had just been formed by American producer John Houseman and French director Michel Saint-Denis.
John Houseman, original name Jacques Haussmann (born Sept. 22, 1902, Bucharest, Rom. died Oct. 31, 1988, Malibu, Calif., U.S.), American stage, film, radio, and television producer who is perhaps best known for his later career as a character actor.
The movie features John Houseman in his feature-film debut; he played an admiral embroiled in the coup.
