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page boy

page boy is the alternative spelling 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 spelling of?
Page boy is the alternative spelling of pageboy.

Words near page boy in the dictionary

  1. Pagbilao
  2. PAGCOR
  3. pagdi
  4. pagdis
  5. page
  6. page boy
  7. page boys
  8. page break
  9. page breaks
  10. Page County
  11. Page curve

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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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