Butler
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A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments, with the butler in charge of the
A butler in the White House Butler's Pantry.
Butler c. 1922
A pincerna depicted in service to a noble court during the Medieval Era.
In a large house, the butler (centre-left) is traditionally head over a full array of household servants. This is the servant staff at the Stonehouse Hill of Massachusetts, US the estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames, 1914.
Footman
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A footman is a male domestic worker employed mainly to wait at table or attend a coach or carriage, usually dressed in livery. One of the man-servant domestic positions, the footman ranks above a hall
Butler
…male and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually female and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were better paid and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status. He can also sometimes…
Four footmen, two standing on the rear platform of the carriage and two walking alongside the horses. The fifth person riding is a postilion. (Japan 2009)
1817 footman or groom's livery, Kensington Palace
A Footman Sleeping, 1871 by French painter Charles Bargue
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