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Definition of Footboys
1. footboy [n] - See also: footboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footboys
Literary usage of Footboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Few Months' Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of by Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan, Edmund Lee (1895)
"by two or three running footboys and old nurses—all bound for the praia, the
sea-shore, and the rocks; there to loiter about, to flirt, and amuse themselves ..."
2. The Plays of Philip Massinger: In Four Volumes by Philip Massinger (1813)
"Tis well; My credit sunk for ever, I am now Fit company only for pages and for
footboys, That have perused the porter's lodge.4 Enter JULIO and GIOVANNI. ..."
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