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house boy

NOUN
butler
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The fuselage, 11 ft. wide, seats 33 daytime passengers, has berths for 16, reclining chairs for nine night travelers, accommodation for three flying officers, hostess and Filipino house boy.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the house boy who helped him off with his shoes the courtly Tanaka bade goodnight with disarming cheerfulness, eased his rheumatic limbs into bed, fell immediately and heavily to sleep.

From Time Magazine Archive

Waking suddenly in the night, he summoned the house boy who roused the Baron's family.

From Time Magazine Archive

“But if their house was destroyed —” “They didn’ keep their gold in the house, boy!

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

I was the house boy, one day, and at dinner time he sent me to the well to get a cool pitcher of water.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.




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