| 单词 | linkboy |
| 释义 | linkboy (once / 295483 pages) n WORD FAMILY linkboy: linkboys USAGE EXAMPLESLinkboys, bearing links, or torches, took over, hiring themselves out to pedestrians and lighting their way home. New York Times(Jul 26, 2010) From a linkboy outside a travelling theatre he was promoted to employment within. Cook, Dutton, A Book of the Play—Studies and Illu...(2010) He looked after us with foreboding eyes as we went out of the great gate, alone, with not so much as a linkboy. Runkle, Bertha, Helmet of Navarre(2010) n (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets Syn|Hyper linkman attendant, attender, tender someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
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