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Definition of Pageboys
1. pageboy [n] - See also: pageboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pageboys
Literary usage of Pageboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1901)
"It was further contended that the pageboys employed in the hotel, including Arthur
Knight, were not young persons employed in a shop, out domestic servants, ..."
2. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"It was further contended that the pageboys employed in the hotel, including Arthur
Knight, were not young persons employed in a shop, but domestic servants, ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"... cost of perhaps $150 may be considered small, if the salaries which would be
required for one and possibly two more assistants, not to mention pageboys, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Under her came a swarm of chambermaids and housemaids, cooks and tailors, pageboys
and varlets. Let us not forget from the list of our retainers that person ..."
5. The Immigrants: A Lyric Drama by Percy MacKaye (1915)
"[While NOEL has spoken, SCAMMON has dispatched into the tent one of his pageboys,
who returns, bringing him the painting of Maria. ..."
6. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1892)
"... and the geese become a crowd of little pageboys bearing her train. Her lover
is the king's son. ..."
7. Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library by General Meeting, American Library Association (1898)
"... mention pageboys, etc., had to be paid. Libraries must be compared not merely
according to the number of ..."
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