pageboy

plural pageboys · alternative page boy · alternative page-boy

1. now frequently historicalA boy who serves as a page.First known use 19th c.
2. A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.First known use 20th c.
3. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.First known use 20th c.

   Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.

   1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53

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   She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections