footmen

Definition of footmennext
plural of footman

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Noun
  • In Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, jogti hijras, jogins, or jogappas are trans women who devote themselves in temples as special servants to the goddess Yellamma.
    Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • As previously noted, one of the gifts of Russian greats that Saunders most celebrates is their way of locating complex truths in the stuff of ordinary lives—their towns and farms, and their families, their servants; their animals.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The main event, though, is the ski room—where ski butlers furnish guests with state-of-the-art skis before sliding them onto the slicked Jardin Alpin piste with or without an instructor.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
  • The Four-Star hotel offers elegant rooms and attentive butlers to fill your every need, including providing cribs, high chairs and play pens.
    Katie Lara, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Traffickers recruit young people, including minors, to serve as foot soldiers in their bloody quest to control drug-trafficking routes across Mexico.
    Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers.
    Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two Israeli soldiers were killed in separate incidents, according to their military.
    Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • Strikers viewed militiamen and soldiers as strikebreakers, and with the arrival of troops in Chicago, the violence escalated dramatically, as did civilian deaths.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Sossamon).
    Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Out of all 32 teams in the League, the Las Vegas raiders get the first pick of the draft, with the New York Jets to follow.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Along with its extensive food menu, Hamlin Pub bar program will have more than two dozen beers on tap, from ales to IPAs to domestics and imports, along with craft cocktails.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This is also the time the warriors against mosquitoes in Miami-Dade and Broward go on high alert.
    Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • No one wanted to stand behind the commanding warriors, draped in blankets and furs, brass hoops in their earlobes, medals and wampum on their strong chests, silver armbands glinting in the light.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
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“Footmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footmen. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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