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FOOTMAN
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Traducere în limba română
footman, plural footmen s.
1. lacheu, valet, fecior.
2. (înv.) pedestraş.
3. (înv.) pieton.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The church, as the reader knows, was but just beyond the gates; the footman soon returned.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Altogether there are eight maids, the cook, the butler, two footmen, and a boy.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As she entered the house, the footman told her that a gentleman and lady had called and inquired for her a few minutes after her setting off; that, when he told them she was gone out with Mr. Thorpe, the lady had asked whether any message had been left for her; and on his saying no, had felt for a card, but said she had none about her, and went away.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
Turn him out, footman!
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It must do the heads of the family a great deal of good to force all the poor housemaids and footmen to leave business and pleasure, and say their prayers here twice a day, while they are inventing excuses themselves for staying away.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Elinor thought she could distinguish a large W in the direction; and no sooner was it complete than Marianne, ringing the bell, requested the footman who answered it to get that letter conveyed for her to the two-penny post.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
Two lines of magnificent red and gold footmen who guarded the door bowed deeply as my uncle and I passed between them, he with his head in the air and a manner as if he entered into his own, whilst I tried to look assured, though my heart was beating thin and fast.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady, said the footman; nor can any of the servants: Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-corner, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The footman still lingered.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
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