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footpage en · NOUN

Etymology

From foot + page.

Meanings

1. A young man who is employed to run errands; errand boy.
   • 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:
   • He turned, therefore, to his little footpage. ' Go swiftly,' quoth he, ' and bring me my golden harp.' 1871, Julia Goddard, Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands, page 115:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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