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Footboy   Listen
noun
Footboy  n.  A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Footboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... gardener, who is guilty of nothing but giving a true report of her lord's deposition and who shows himself a kind-hearted fellow, "Thou little better thing than earth," "thou wretch"! Henry VIII. talks of a "lousy footboy," and the Duke of Suffolk, when he is about to be killed by his pirate captor at Dover, calls him "obscure and lowly swain," "jaded groom," and "base slave," dubs his crew "paltry, servile, abject drudges," and declares that his own ...
— Tolstoy on Shakespeare - A Critical Essay on Shakespeare • Leo Tolstoy

... set out on his way thither in great pomp of gear and baggage and horses and servitors, unrecking of Ghino's [ill] report. The latter, hearing of his coming, spread his nets and hemmed him and all his household and gear about in a strait place, without letting a single footboy escape. This done, he despatched to the abbot one, the most sufficient, of his men, well accompanied, who in his name very lovingly prayed him be pleased to light down and sojourn with the aforesaid Ghino in his castle. The abbot, hearing this, answered furiously that he would ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... footboy, summoned by Pansy—he might, tarnished as to livery and quaint as to type, have issued from some stray sketch of old-time manners, been "put in" by the brush of a Longhi or a Goya—had come out with a small table and placed it on the grass, and then had ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James

... me that, as I'm only your footboy, he'll send me away to the rear, where there's nothing but wounded ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... me," I asked, "what opportunity has he of learning more than all the world knows? He has not been in my apartments since I engaged him. He has seen none of my papers. The youngest footboy could tell all ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman

... with footboy at her heels, No longer blushing for her awkward load, Her train and ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 • Various

... any man whose opinions were not in fashion dared to lament without being openly charged with that imputation. And this is the harder, because although a mother when she hath corrected her child may sometimes force it to kiss the rod, yet she will never give that power to the footboy ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII - Historical and Political Tracts—Irish • Jonathan Swift



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