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ˈfootboy
†a. A boy-attendant (obs.).
b. A boy (in livery) employed in the place of or to assist a footman; a page-boy.
1590Greene Mourn. Garm. Wks. (Grosart) IX. 139 On he paceth with his men and his foot-boyes towardes Assyria. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 69 Like Peasant foot-Boyes doe they keepe the Walls. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 5 On Friday night late I received a Note from your Foot-boy. 1711Steele Spect. No. 96 ⁋1 From my being first a Footboy at fourteen, to my present Station of a Nobleman's Porter. 1837Hawthorne Twice-Told T. (1851) I. ix. 163 The smart maid-servant, and the dirty little footboy. |