footmen in English

noun
1
a liveried servant whose duties include admitting visitors and waiting at table.
An army of servants - maids, footmen , cooks and gardeners - made the luxurious lifestyle of the family possible.
2
a soldier in the infantry.
When you signed up, you were asked where you wanted to be, cavalry, archery, footmen , swordsmen, smiths.
3
a trivet to hang on the bars of a grate.
4
a slender moth that is typically of a subdued color, the caterpillar feeding almost exclusively on lichens.

Use "footmen" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "footmen" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "footmen", or refer to the context using the word "footmen" in the English Dictionary.

1. But you have really been running with footmen, not with horses.

2. “With Footmen You Have Run . . . Can You Run a Race With Horses?”

3. ♪ Aye, the footmen are frantic in their indignation ♪

4. Week Footman: Double growth for Footmen and Swordsmen.

5. To Counteract the violence in the community, the police increased the number of footmen on patrol

6. At Stirling, the 10-year-old James had a guard of 20 footmen dressed in his colours, red and yellow.

7. Blackamoors are also incorporated in jewelry and other decorative art while life-size figures were kept as artificial ‘footmen’ in doorways

8. 21 He went up to the next floor, where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes, biscuits and ices.

9. Cocooned! Captain Rupert wants you to open the Nerubian Cocoons in Drak'Sotra and return to him once you have freed 3 Captive Footmen

10. Footmen in livery and knee-breeches drew back and replaced the guests'chairs when they sat down(http://Sentencedict.com), while the major-domo ceremoniously ladled out steaming soup from a silver tureen.

11. ‘The very inclusions of the various accusations of Witchcraft, which Besprinkle the book, are seemingly against the scientific mindset of the times.’ ‘Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, Besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue.’

12. ‘Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, Besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue.’ ‘It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and Besprinkled with antique dust.’

13. ‘The Coachman opened the carriage door and helped her step down.’ ‘The Duke called a Coachman to drive the carriage and its four occupants home.’ ‘In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.’

14. Often a cart came by, with several rough coffins in it and no mourners following; Barouches, with invalid officers, rolled round the corner and carriage loads of pretty children, with black coachmen, footmen and maids." Life in the hospital was a tremendous strain on Miss Alcott and she succumbed to typhoid fever.