footman
Example Sentences
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Mr. Molesley endeared audiences with his hapless but well-meaning misadventures in the series, eventually transitioning from footman to local schoolteacher.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
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
The footman died in the trenches during World War I, and Lizzie never remarried.
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
When we reached the spot 03-01 had designated for our supper — a spreading oak that would afiord us all shade from the afternoon sun — we stopped, and the footman helped us step down.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
