Useful man

Useful man

A useful man or houseman is a male servant ranking below a footman but above a hall boy.

Unlike the footman, the useful man never enters the dining room or waits personally on the master of the house.

The term "houseman" should be distinguished from houseboy, a usually adult male servant of higher rank.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • man-hour — ˈman hour noun [countable] COMMERCE MANUFACTURING the amount of work done by one person in one hour: • General Motors budgets for 30.3 man hours to build a car. * * * man hour UK US noun [C] ► WORKPLACE, PRODUCTION the amount …   Financial and business terms

  • Man and the natural world changing attitudes in England 1500-1800 — Man and the natural world. Changing attitudes in England 1500 1800 by historian Keith Thomas was originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane in 1983. Anthropocentric worldview. The first chapter introduces us to the extreme human centred… …   Wikipedia

  • man|u|fac|ture — «MAN yuh FAK chuhr», verb, tured, tur|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to make by hand or by machine. A big factory manufactures goods in large quantities by using machines and dividing the work up among many people. 2. to make into something useful: »to… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Man-Bat — Cover to Man Bat (vol. 3) #3 (August 2006) Art by Mike Huddleston Publication information Publisher DC Comics …   Wikipedia

  • Man overboard — For other uses, see Man Overboard (disambiguation). Signal flag Oscar indicates man overboard …   Wikipedia

  • Man-E-Faces — Infobox He Man/She Ra Character|Alliance=#87CEFA Title=Man E Faces Name=Man E Faces Affiliation=He Man Powers=Change his head to robot, human and monster Actor=Lou Scheimer 1983 Paul Dobson 2002|Man E Faces is a fictional character in the Masters …   Wikipedia

  • Man cave — A man cave decorated with Civil War memorabilia. A man cave, sometimes a mantuary[1] or manspace,[2] is a male sanctuary …   Wikipedia

  • Man — This article is about adult human males. For humans in general, see Human. For the word, see Man (word). For the island, see Isle of Man. For other uses, see Man (disambiguation). Manhood and Men redirect here. For other uses, see Manhood… …   Wikipedia

  • Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future — Cover Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990) is a speculative book written by Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by Philip Hood. The theme of the book is a science fiction body horror exploration of the possibilities of… …   Wikipedia

  • fibre, man-made — Introduction       fibre whose chemical composition, structure, and properties are significantly modified during the manufacturing process. Man made fibres are spun and woven into a huge number of consumer and industrial products, including… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”