Definition of Pageboy

1. Noun. A boy who is employed to run errands.

Exact synonyms: Page
Generic synonyms: Errand Boy, Messenger Boy

2. Noun. A smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward.
Generic synonyms: Coif, Coiffure, Hair Style, Hairdo, Hairstyle

Definition of Pageboy

1. Noun. A boy who serves as a page. ¹

2. Noun. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pageboy

1. a woman's hairstyle [n -BOYS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pageboy

page kidney
page number
page out
page printer
page proof
page wire
pageable
pageant
pageanted
pageanting
pageantlike
pageantries
pageantry
pageants
pageaunt
pageboy (current term)
pageboys
paged
paged down
paged in
paged out
paged up
pagefile
pagefiles
pageful
pagefuls
pagehood
pagehoods
pageless
pagelike

Literary usage of Pageboy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The School World (1907)
"Then, with nothing to herald her except a pageboy called Stopford Brooke's " Primer ... (NB—The pageboy himself had written an Introduction for her. ..."

2. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"Then the LONDOS second point is as to whether the particular pageboy was ... _ pageboy does not come within the exclusion of that provision as 55 f 5c> ..."

3. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1901)
"LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AK, a young person within the Act, was employed as a pageboy in the general service of the hotel. He slept in the hotel, and the first ..."

4. The Bookman (1898)
"... and I imagine that it was he who invented the pageboy Caddie, of the comic opera, Jane Annie ; or, The Good Conduct Prize, which is his next work for ..."

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