linkboyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From link (“torch, light”) +‎ boy.

名詞

link boy (複数形 link boys)

1. (historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280:

     “Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.