linkboy

/ ˈlɪŋkˌbɔɪ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

Ostlers ran out to hold the team of horses steaming in the cool night air, and linkboys carrying torches and orange lanterns ran out to help the travelers in.

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

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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.

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I quite enjoy looking out of the window and listening to the calling up of the carriages and the squabbles of the coachmen and linkboys.

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It gave her much of a shock to realise how beauties, lovers, linkboys, and all had disappeared from the face of the earth, as if they had never been.

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