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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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Their luxury ships were formerly owned by Crystal Cruises, and their Danube cruise ship, Riverside Mozart, features all-suite staterooms, marble baths, a gym, an indoor pool, and butler service.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Feb. 2025
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This year, Roborock won the race to launch a commercial robot vacuum that has an extendable arm that can pick up small bits of clutter in its way, thus becoming the robot butler of your dreams.—
Adrienne So,
WIRED,
6 Jan. 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
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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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But a move by Trump and his Mar-a-Lago co-defendants valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira, has tied up the release of Smith’s final work.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
11 Jan. 2025
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Seventeen seconds later, the truck exploded in the valet area of the hotel.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
2 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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But Meghan had her issues with servants, Quinn reported.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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There’s a butler’s pantry, a servant’s quarters and a servant’s staircase.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 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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Wright’s meticulous history operates as a sort of panopticon on the events leading up to that fateful day, spanning more than five decades and a geopolitical guest list that includes everyone from the counterterrorism chief of the F.B.I. to the anonymous foot soldiers of Al Qaeda.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2024
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“Footman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footman. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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