单词 | foot servant |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot servant foot servant n. an attendant or footman; (also) an unquestioning or servile follower. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > herald > [noun] > foot-messenger or servant foot servant1668 foot messenger1678 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. sig. Iii4 Lacky, foot-servant. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 60/1 Foot Messengers of Arms, are such Foot Servants, as are imployed by the Heralds of Arms. 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile III. vii. 174 Is it like peaceable people..to come mounted on horseback and armed as you are? Would not your mules and your foot-servants have been as proper? 1840 Suppl. Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) 24 Oct. 173/3 Boat women, house maids and foot servants. 1864 Continental Monthly Aug. 222 The party politician, for example, is just as fully bound by the will of others as a coachman or foot servant. 1996 Amer. Cowboy May 39/2 Federal land agency managers are the footservants of these Eastern interests. 2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 July 9 For the majority of Indian women, the reality is that their function in life is as housekeepers, mothers or foot servants to in-laws. < as lemmas |
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