bellboy
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bellboys
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noun
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Origin of bellboy
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Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
As a teenager, Correa began working as a bellboy in a hotel in central Madrid.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2019
A shaggy white guy in a bellboy uniform knocks on the door of a hotel room in Seoul, South Korea, a little bumbling and out of place.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2016
Behind Marlon, the doors of the Carlyle opened and a bellboy emerged walking backward with a tower of Louis Vuitton luggage on a trolley and Elizabeth at his side.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
A bellboy complete with uniform and sharp-creased cap jumps forward and begins to carry our bags into the lobby.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
During summers, the children and their father worked as bellboys and valets at the Greenbrier, an expansive resort nearby.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
A year later, 14 women replaced the bellboys.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
V.A.S. frequently enlists bartenders, doormen, bellboys, waitresses and cabbies in games — people a client is unlikely to think are in on the ruse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2011
After 20 years, Shuman and the Sherman's bellboys have become special friends, though Shuman is a notoriously parsimonious tipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other bellboys were taking these risks, and I fell in.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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