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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One, usually a boy, who acts or serves as a page.
  • noun A hairstyle, usually shoulder-length, with the ends of the hair curled under smoothly in a loose roll.

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  • noun A boy who serves as a page.
  • noun A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a boy who is employed to run errands
  • noun a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward

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Examples

  • My own hairstyle was what is known as the pageboy; bangs with a square cut ending around the chin.

    Hair Fashion: Brent & the Peaky « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • I say more power to him and kick that entitled pageboy to the curb.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • I say more power to him and kick that entitled pageboy to the curb.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • 'pageboy' style, choose 'Every day', 'Sweaty' and then 'No' to the question about clothing.

    IGN Complete 2008

  • I always had the traditional long bob, you know, 'pageboy,' we used to call it.

    Portrait of a Lady 2011

  • Here are recollections of working as a pageboy at a manor house in Yorkshire, running errands in Lancashire, and doing something that sounds dreadful with straw in Buckinghamshire.

    Speaking English, I Think 2009

  • In my photos, Quetzal wears a gold headband over a shaggy pageboy haircut and an outfit consisting of lots of white and ruffly fabric, accentuated by trim white leggings and white platform shoes.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Here are recollections of working as a pageboy at a manor house in Yorkshire, running errands in Lancashire, and doing something that sounds dreadful with straw in Buckinghamshire.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • He left school at 13 for a 10 shilling job as a Liptons Teas delivery boy, and went on to work as a pageboy in a ladies 'club, a cabin boy? after, he insisted, walking from London to Cardiff to join the merchant navy? and having learned in his days as a bandsman in the army, a useful boxer despite his slight frame.

    Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95 Maev Kennedy 2010

  • All other official roles will be filled by someone full of pomp and nomenclatural polysyllabery yes, Margarita Armstrong-Jones and pageboy William Lowther-Pinkerton, I'm looking at you! and with familial or friendship ties to the head honchos.

    This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton 2011

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