Synonyms:
footman
Meaning: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
Usage examples
He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over-boot.
'I shall never be a footman,' he was asserting; 'I couldn't keep my legs so stiff.
The footman placed in her hand a little box "with Madame du Launy's compliments," he said.
Whereupon the footman disappeared, reappeared presenting Sloppy, and retired much disgusted.
Toward one that night, his footman ran to knock me up with the news that Peters was very ill.
Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now!
He was not long in hearing of Kit, who had found a situation as footman, and he gained his employer's leave to take the lad with him.
A footman appeared, to whom she gravely added: "If Mr. van der Luyden has finished reading the newspaper, please ask him to be kind enough to come."
Here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion, appeared, and crossing to Rokesmith apologetically announced the objectionable Sloppy.
"--to see me some afternoon," Mrs. Van Degen ended, going down the steps to her motor, at the door of which a much-furred footman waited with more furs on his arm.