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footboy

[ foot-boi ]

noun

  1. a boy in livery employed as a servant; page.


footboy

/ ˈfʊtˌbɔɪ /

noun

  1. a boy servant; page
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of footboy1

1580–90; foot + boy, modeled on footman
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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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