Associations to the word «Linkboy»
Wiktionary
LINKBOY, noun. Male servant or other attendant (regardless of age), employed to bear a torch or other light abroad at night
Dictionary definition
LINKBOY, noun. (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.