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

The aspirant to the hand of Mademoiselle de Clairvaut," he said to himself, "without a single footboy to hold his horse!

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

Amid his practical jokes with William the footboy, and one merry-maker and another, there is still an underlying earnestness in all and a reverence for the pure sentiment of the heart.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang

There was only one other person in the room: a microscopically small footboy, who waited on the malevolent man who hadn't got into the Post-Office.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

"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

Extreme cold is very well expressed in the slip-shod footboy, and the girl who is warming her hands.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John