redcap

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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black