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linkboy

/ ˈ±ôɪŋ°ìËŒ²úɔɪ /

noun

  1. (formerly) a boy who carried a torch for pedestrians in dark streets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Ostlers ran out to hold the team of horses steaming in the cool night air, and linkboys carrying torches and orange lanterns ran out to help the travelers in.

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From a linkboy outside a travelling theatre he was promoted to employment within.

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He looked after us with foreboding eyes as we went out of the great gate, alone, with not so much as a linkboy.

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I quite enjoy looking out of the window and listening to the calling up of the carriages and the squabbles of the coachmen and linkboys.

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It gave her much of a shock to realise how beauties, lovers, linkboys, and all had disappeared from the face of the earth, as if they had never been.

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