footman

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

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

A footman opens the door, and I see the whole courtyard, filled with music and voices and merriment.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Alongside the coach, walk nine grooms, six footmen and four Yeomen of the Guard.

From BBC ● May 4, 2023

When the golden state coach, pulled by eight white horses and surrounded by liveried footmen, came into view, he knew it was time to use them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Instead Marcia calmly watches Logan's footmen turned back into mice, scurrying about as they jockey for power.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2023

We understand the tribulations of the great British country houses as the country creaked into the twentieth century: thieving footmen, deranged ladies’-maids, and troublesome romances between under-butlers.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019

And reflecting this unease, the visiting valets and footmen appeared to regard one another with marked coldness and my own staff were rather glad to be too busy to spend much time with them.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro