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noun
bellboy  n.  Someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
Synonyms: bellman, bellhop.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bellboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... feelings of J. Madison Coleman, yet he considered that, having known him only six hours, it was somewhat imprudent to allow such intimacy. But he who hesitates is lost, and before Luke had made up his mind whether to object or not, he was already part way upstairs—there was no elevator—following the bellboy, who carried his luggage. ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger

... for my mother many a time. I have been a bootblack. But it didn't hurt my character. You are going to the superintendent for his opinion. He is a Harvard man, but he worked his way through school and one of his jobs was bellboy in a hotel. Had he been too proud to work as a servant he would never have gotten the education that makes him head of this great school. Didn't you ever scrub a floor on your knees? You can see the ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis

... hesitation, ordering Leary to wait. The woman hurried up to the desk and, taking a blank card from it, scribbled a few words upon it in pencil, and handed it to the clerk. Grace was unable to hear what she said to him, but the man nodded, and handed the card to a bellboy. The woman sat down in a ...
— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks

... refer to the hotel where the bellboy is simply an animated polisher of banisters, and otherwise extremely useless. It is likewise the house where the syrup tastes like tincture of rhubarb, and the pancakes taste ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... a peek through the door camera and saw a man in a bellboy's uniform, holding a large traveling case. I recognized the face, so I let ...
— A Spaceship Named McGuire • Gordon Randall Garrett

... the act of packing his trunk, for it was found nearly ready for the expressman. Indeed, there was every evidence of his intention to leave on an early morning train. He had even desired to be awakened at six o'clock; and it was his failure to respond to the summons of the bellboy which led to so early a discovery of his death. He had never complained of any distress in breathing, and we had always considered him a perfectly healthy man; but there was no reason for assigning any other cause than heart failure to his sudden ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green



Words linked to "Bellboy" :   bellhop, tender, bellman, attendant, attender



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