Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of boots (servant who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes)
Not but that the Grand Hotel is equal to any other Grand Hotel with its regiment of waiters, bootses, chambermaids, porters, lifts, housemaids, cooks, and so forth.
1865, London Society, volume 8, page 201
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