"footmanship" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, chapter 23, in The Crock of Gold, London: Richard Bentley, page 187",
          "text": "As the precious ‘lad’ grew older, and divers indoor potentates died off, the housekeeper had power to push her nephew on to pageship, footmanship, and divers other similar crafts, even to the final post of butler […]",
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          "ref": "1854, Grace Greenwood, Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, page 51",
          "text": "[…] a rich-liveried footman was lounging in an easy chair, with his heels as high as his head […] and from this comfortable position he budged not an inch at the importunate summons […]. “What!” cried the primitive and provincial serving man, “don’t you answer the drawing-room bell?” “Not unless they persewere,” was the cool response of his footmanship.",
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          "ref": "1909, Gelett Burgess, Lady Méchante, Cambridge University Press, Book IV, Chapter Eight, p. 378",
          "text": "[…] I think […] you’d better change your work for something out of doors, where I won’t trouble you so much. Can you do anything else but footmanship?",
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          "ref": "1949, Lajos Zilahy, translated by John Pauker, The Dukays, New York: Prentice-Hall, Part Three, Chapter 5, p. 177",
          "text": "They too were ranged in order of rank: four chamberlains, four Hussars, four Chasseurs, and four butlers—these were the degrees within the hierarchy of footmanship.",
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        "The post or position of footman; the skill or art of a footman."
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        "(historical) The post or position of footman; the skill or art of a footman."
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          "ref": "1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1",
          "roman": "Who may best runne with all his force the tother to outstrip,",
          "text": "Both twaine of them doe straine themselues and lay on footemanship,",
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          "ref": "1593, Gervase Markham, chapter 1, in A Discource of Horsmanshippe, London: Richard Smith",
          "text": "[…] your Foales by scoping & galloping thereon, shall be brought to such nimblenesse, strength, and true footemanship, that they shall not only haue a most excellent braue trotte, but also during theyr lyues […] they shalbe frée from that foule vice of stumbling.",
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          "ref": "1616, Christopher Marlowe, edited by Israel Gollancz, Doctor Faustus, London: J.M. Dent, published 1897, Scene 12, p. 61",
          "text": "I’ll raise a kennel of hounds, shall hunt him so,\nAs all his footmanship shall scarce prevail\nTo keep his carcase from their bloody fangs.",
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          "ref": "1727, Daniel Defoe, A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn, et al, published 1742, Letter 7, p. 351",
          "text": "The People in [Worcestershire] have been more particularly famous than any other for good Footmanship; and there have been, and still are among them, some of the fleetest Runners in England […]",
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        "(archaic) The skill or ability to run (of humans or animals)."
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