footman

Example Sentences

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“The turnover of a footman is notoriously high!”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2023

During an event at the Gibside estate, in Rowlands Gill, they learned about William Johnson, who was black and worked as a footman there in the late 1700s.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023

It had belonged, Ms. Miller said, to her great-aunt Lizzie, who had been a downstairs maid at a grand house in Scotland and had married the footman.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

A newspaper reporter who went undercover to work as a palace footman reinforced that down-to-earth image, taking photos of the royal Tupperware on the breakfast table and a rubber duck in the bath.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022

The second footman, whose name I no longer recall, left a short note addressed to me, saying something like: 'Please do not judge us too harshly.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro