footboy

American  

[foot-boi] / ˈfʊtˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a boy in livery employed as a servant; page.

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footboy British  

/ ˈfʊtˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a boy servant; page

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Etymology

Origin of footboy

1580–90; foot + boy, modeled on footman

Example Sentences

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footboy

The grandmother, however, dying, the support from that quarter failed, and she was obliged to hire her out as a footboy to a French lady.

From The Pirates Own Book by Ellms, Charles

I do not trust myself alone in the streets and high roads without a footboy to hold my horse, like the noble aspirant to the hand of Mademoiselle de Clairvaut.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

In haste came in the little footboy,    And stood before the table; He was I ween a clever lad,    And well to speak was able.

From Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian by Borrow, George Henry

"Thou dost go about as a footboy, and not as a King's son."

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

He met, as he expected, Jack Henderson, who had been to Dowry Square and heard that Miss Palmer had been called away on some business, but where the footboy did not know.

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma