footman
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“The turnover of a footman is notoriously high!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
The footman died in the trenches during World War I, and Lizzie never remarried.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
The former footman still has the tea set he was given by the monarch as a gift one Christmas.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2022
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
Lisa had been with us for some eight or nine months - and I had largely forgotten her existence by this point - when she vanished from the house together with the second footman.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Maybe he would pay the staff more, promote the Black footmen or at least give them some better treatment.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023
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
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
They were flanked by two big footmen in powdered wigs and braided coats, satin knee britches and white stockings.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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