FOOTBOY

Etymology

Noun

footboy (plural footboys)

(now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties to those of an adult footman.

Our troopes are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, or carriages, of lackies, and foot-boies, which because of their masters armes they carry, can never leave them.

Source: Wiktionary

Foot"boy`, n.

Definition: A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition