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page-boy

page-boy is the alternative form of pageboy.

Meaning of pageboy

Noun

pageboy (plural pageboys)

  1. (now frequently historical) A boy who serves as a page.
  2. A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.
  3. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
    • Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53

Forms of page-boy

pluralpage-boys

Questions about page-boy

What is page-boy the alternative form of?
Page-boy is the alternative form of pageboy.

Words near page-boy in the dictionary

  1. page up
  2. Page Ups
  3. page view
  4. page views
  5. page wire
  6. page-boy
  7. page-one rewrite
  8. page-one rewrites
  9. page-three girl
  10. page-three girls
  11. page-turner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: page-boy (page history and authors); pageboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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