bellboyn.
1. A boy who rings a bell.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with other specific duties on ship
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bellboy1851
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xl. 189 Eight bells there! d'ye hear, bell-boy?
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxv. 576 ‘Who art thou, boy?’ ‘Bell-boy, sir; ship's-crier. Ding, dong, ding!’
2. A boy who answers the bell in a hotel; a hotel page-boy. U.S.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn
bellboy1861
hall-boy1884
bell-hopper1900
bell-hop1910
1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman 366 ‘What are you, then, young fellow?’ ‘I'm bell-boy.’
1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 147/2 Neither of them had observed the bell-boy's face as Beryl ordered her ice-water.
1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 10 Brought back by a passing bell-boy, I shall now keep a tighter rein.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 196 Hotel piazzas where the ingenuous young of the wealthy play with or revile the bell-boys.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne ii. 10 Lusk sent the bell-boy for a bottle of whiskey.
1903 Smart Set 9 13/2 A bell-boy arranged the tray on the table.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxiii. 245 Glimpses as a bellboy of the luxurious life of the hotel.
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