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linkboy

British  
/ ˈlɪŋkˌbɔɪ /

noun

  1. (formerly) a boy who carried a torch for pedestrians in dark streets

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He looked after us with foreboding eyes as we went out of the great gate, alone, with not so much as a linkboy.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

And was the revealer of those high mysteries in his youth a deer-stealer in the parks of Warwickshire, a linkboy in London streets?

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

From a linkboy outside a travelling theatre he was promoted to employment within.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton