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as in butler
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as in cavalryman
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Recent Examples of footman
What’s the solution for those of us who don’t have footmen to hold the food?
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Mary Carol Garrity, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
In the aftermath of the Queen’s death at Balmoral Castle, senior staff, including the monarch’s private secretary Sir Edward Young, were mapping out the days ahead when a footman brought them one of the Queen’s famous red boxes.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
Here, playwright Marcelo Dos Santos and director Michael Grandage pay their appreciative respects to William Tallon, the queen mum’s longtime footman who earned the nickname that gives the play its title.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
Denker tries to take advantage of the new footman but Thomas steps in to get revenge.
—Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
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Mary Carol Garrity, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
In the aftermath of the Queen’s death at Balmoral Castle, senior staff, including the monarch’s private secretary Sir Edward Young, were mapping out the days ahead when a footman brought them one of the Queen’s famous red boxes.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
Here, playwright Marcelo Dos Santos and director Michael Grandage pay their appreciative respects to William Tallon, the queen mum’s longtime footman who earned the nickname that gives the play its title.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
Denker tries to take advantage of the new footman but Thomas steps in to get revenge.
—Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for footman
Noun
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The hotel’s wellness butler prepped my bath with aromatic salts, lavender, and rosemary for purification.—
Michaela Trimble,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
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For the ultimate indulgence, splurge on a beach house, villa, or estate, all of which come with butler service.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
25 Feb. 2025
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Was the unit’s survival due to the men’s indispensable service as Loyalist laborers and cavalrymen?—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
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These cavalrymen participated in the Third Battle of Winchester, a key victory for the Union.—
Jake Whitney,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The show is sharpest when its sights are fixed on Norma and Joe, and also on the looming figure of Norma’s manservant and eternal enabler, Max.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2024
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The dialogue is witty and the characters are memorable, particularly Boris Karloff as hulking manservant Morgan.—
Katie Rife,
EW.com,
12 Mar. 2024
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The infantryman provided first aid to his comrades wounded in the Korean War attack and began helping move those men to safety.—
JOSH BOAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Acting decisively, the infantryman administered first aid to wounded comrades and helped move them to safety.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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Multiple witnesses observed the shooting and saw the men carrying pistols; the witnesses included the driver of a nearby BMW, a valet driver parked in front of a jewelry store and another student at Innovations High School who the boys were with seconds earlier, prosecutors said.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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But women performers have historically been tasked with serving as ring valets, sidekicks or managers.—
Martie Bowser,
Essence,
30 Jan. 2025
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An international networker par excellence, Zambello was staging Carmen at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, with Chen in the peripheral part of Zuniga, lieutenant of the dragoons.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
7 Dec. 2024
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The family, Louisville residents, also enjoyed some pizza and crab dragoons from the food trucks.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
8 Apr. 2024
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Japanese folklore indicates the fish belonged to servants of the sea god Ryūjin.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Banksy removed one of the servants and added a sinking oil tanker and two figures in hazmat suits hauling a barrel of toxic waste.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Many of his foot soldiers are young software engineers with no government experience who have parachuted into federal agencies seeking to overhaul or even dismantle them.—
Theodore Schleifer,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Musk, who typically posts between 50 and 100 tweets per day, is taking the bottom-up approach by letting foot soldiers supply suggestions that get seen — and acted on — by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).—
Neal Rothschild,
Axios,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Footman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footman. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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