Definition of "footboy" [foot•boy]

• A youth employed as a servant or page. (noun)

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• "Robert Melville, who appeared to have been using some soothing language — “No! no! no! I tell thee, no! I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy.”"
• "She told her name, and was shewn, by a little shabby footboy, into a parlour."
• "Injury is on the other side a good man's footboy, his fidus Acliates, and as a lackey follows him wheresoever he goes."