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Webster 1913 Edition
Footboy
Foot′boyˊ
,Noun.
A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Footboy
FOOT'BOY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
footboy
footboy
English
Noun
footboy (plural footboys)
- (now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties as an adult footman.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.9: