footpage
footpage noun: a young man who is employed to run errands; errand boy.
Noun
footpage (plural footpages)
- A young man who is employed to run errands; errand boy.
- After Lord Burnet was gone to the Chace, Musgroves and Lady Burnet went to bed together, which the little Footpage made an excuse to go to the Lady's room; and, seeing them in bed together, said, that Lord Burnet should know it before any sleep had closed his eyes.1801, Joanna Southcott, Collected Tracts - Volume 5, page 90
- And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain.
Time with me goes slow. —
"Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"
But that grief is heavy I know.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175
footpage meaning in Tamil
footpage in Tamil
- வேலைச்சிறுவன்
Examples of footpage in a sentence
- He turned, therefore, to his little footpage.1871, Julia Goddard, Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands, page 115:
- A' this beheard a little footpage, Fast hid ahind a tree; An' he's awa' to seek his laird, Sae fast as he can hie.1923, H. P. Lovecraft, The Conservative:
- All this was heard by a little footpage, By his lady's coach as he ran, Says he, I am my lady's footpage, I will be Lord Arnol's man.1997, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie, →ISBN:
Forms of footpage
| plural | footpages |
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Origin of footpage
From foot + page.
Questions about footpage
- What does footpage mean?
- Footpage means a young man who is employed to run errands; errand boy.
- What is footpage in Tamil?
- Footpage in Tamil is வேலைச்சிறுவன். See Footpage meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use footpage in a sentence?
- He turned, therefore, to his little footpage.
- What part of speech is footpage?
- Footpage is a noun.
- What is the plural of footpage?
- The plural of footpage is footpages.
Words near footpage in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: footpage (page history and authors); footpage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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