henchboy

== English == === Alternative forms === hinchboy === Etymology === Blend of henchman +‎ boy. === Noun === henchboy (plural henchboys) (archaic) A follower; footman; page; a servant. 1846, Percy Society - Volume 19: The smiths exhibited a mounted horseman with head-piece and axe; the carpenters, a group of boys, bearing wands surmounted with bunches of flowers, like that borne by the lord mayor of London's henchboy, in Charles I's time, as shewn in the frontispiece to the first part of my "Lord Mayors' Pageants;" [...] A young henchman === References ===