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footboy
[ foot-boi ]
noun
- a boy in livery employed as a servant; page.
footboy
/ ˈfʊtˌbɔɪ /
noun
- a boy servant; page
Example Sentences
The aspirant to the hand of Mademoiselle de Clairvaut," he said to himself, "without a single footboy to hold his horse!
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.
Some biographers have described Opie as becoming the doctor's footboy, but this is a mistake.
But in the business of summoning Carlat--Mademoiselle de Vrillac's steward and major-domo--he lost the contemptuous "Christaudins!" that hissed from a footboy's lips, and the "Southern dogs!" that died in the moustachios of a bully in the livery of the King's brother.
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.
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