footboy
English
Etymology
From foot + boy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʊtbɔɪ/
Noun
footboy (plural footboys)
- (now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties to those of an adult footman.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.9:
- Our troopes are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, or carriages, of lackies, and foot-boies, which because of their masters armes they carry, can never leave them.
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