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FOOTMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("footman" is a kind of...):
manservant (a man servant)
Context examples:
The foreign host, the foreign footman, the foreign cook, all had vanished in the night!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was instantly aroused, and, with the two footmen, started off at once in search of the missing girl.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I often see his footmen lounging at the back gate, and the Duke of Wellington's house is not far off.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Would Sir Thomas have consented to eat, she might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions, and insulted the footmen with injunctions of despatch; but Sir Thomas resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing till tea came—he would rather wait for tea.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
One of his lately hired servants, a footman, answered it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is that you ring for the footman and let me give such orders as I like.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A footman answered our knock, and we were ushered into a large drawing-room with sombre furniture and melancholy curtains.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the rest, his house is full of butlers, footmen, maidservants, and the usual overfed, underworked staff of a large English country house.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nor did it take long for every stronghold to pour forth its cavalry, and every hamlet its footmen.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
