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Definition of Footboy
1. n. A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
Definition of Footboy
1. Noun. (context: now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties as an adult footman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footboy
1. a serving boy [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footboy
Literary usage of Footboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... tempered quiet animal alive, which is candid in me to own, as he, as long as
it is light, prefers my footboy, or a bone on the lawn, to my company. ..."
2. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"... with the sun in noon-day glory over-head, and generally ignoring the Native
footboy. trilling differences between Amsterdam and Batavia. ..."
3. Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand de Périgord ...: Containing the Particulars of by Stewarton (1805)
"... the son of a porter, and a footboy himself in his youth, actually the worthy
representative of Napoleon the First at the court of Madrid. ..."
4. Eliza Cook's Journal by Eliza Cook (1850)
"Happy is the footboy, who is the first of his race in bis situation, for then is
his uniform fitted to bis size, and he is the type, form, and pattern of ..."
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