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

Mary was brought up as a boy, and at the age of 13 was engaged as a footboy to wait on a French lady.

From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip

Then she hired very handsome lodgings and a footboy, and she got a harpsichord, but Bet could not play; however, she put herself in fine attitudes and drummed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

He got up in the night, and his footboy with him, and went to the privy.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Mrs. Bungay's own footboy was lost amidst those large and black-coated attendants.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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