Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One, usually a boy, who acts or serves as a page.
- noun A hairstyle, usually shoulder-length, with the ends of the hair curled under smoothly in a loose roll.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A boy who serves as a
page . - noun A shoulder-length
hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy who is employed to run errands
- noun a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward
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Examples
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My own hairstyle was what is known as the pageboy; bangs with a square cut ending around the chin.
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I say more power to him and kick that entitled pageboy to the curb.
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I say more power to him and kick that entitled pageboy to the curb.
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'pageboy' style, choose 'Every day', 'Sweaty' and then 'No' to the question about clothing.
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I always had the traditional long bob, you know, 'pageboy,' we used to call it.
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Here are recollections of working as a pageboy at a manor house in Yorkshire, running errands in Lancashire, and doing something that sounds dreadful with straw in Buckinghamshire.
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In my photos, Quetzal wears a gold headband over a shaggy pageboy haircut and an outfit consisting of lots of white and ruffly fabric, accentuated by trim white leggings and white platform shoes.
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Here are recollections of working as a pageboy at a manor house in Yorkshire, running errands in Lancashire, and doing something that sounds dreadful with straw in Buckinghamshire.
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He left school at 13 for a 10 shilling job as a Liptons Teas delivery boy, and went on to work as a pageboy in a ladies 'club, a cabin boy? after, he insisted, walking from London to Cardiff to join the merchant navy? and having learned in his days as a bandsman in the army, a useful boxer despite his slight frame.
Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95
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All other official roles will be filled by someone full of pomp and nomenclatural polysyllabery yes, Margarita Armstrong-Jones and pageboy William Lowther-Pinkerton, I'm looking at you! and with familial or friendship ties to the head honchos.
This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton
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