pageboy

See also: page boy

English

Alternative forms

• page boy, page-boy

Etymology

From page +‎ boy.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pageboy (plural pageboys)

1. (now frequently historical) A boy who serves as a page. [from 19th c.]
2. A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age. [from 20th c.]
3. A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under. [from 20th c.]
   • 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53:

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

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     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.

Related terms

• ringbearer
• flower girl

Translations

boy that is a page

• Armenian: մանկլավիկ (hy) (manklavik), պաժ (hy) (paž)
• Azerbaijani: paj
• Bulgarian: паж m (paž)
• Catalan: patge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 男仔侍從／男仔侍从

• Czech: páže (cs) n
• Danish: page (da) c
• Dutch: page (nl) m
• Esperanto: paĝio
• Estonian: paaž
• Finnish: paaši (fi), paašipoika
• French: page (fr) m
• Galician: paxe m, armíxero m
• German: Page (de) m
• Hebrew: נער (he) m
• Hungarian: apród (hu)
• Italian: paggetto m, paggio (it) m
• Japanese: ペイジ
• Korean: 페이지 (ko) (peiji)
• Latin: pedisequus m
• Lithuanian: pažas m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: page m

• Macedonian: паж m (paž)
• Middle English: henxman
• Norwegian: pasje m
• Polish: paź (pl) m
• Portuguese: pajem (pt) m
• Romanian: paj (ro) m
• Russian: паж (ru) m (paž)
• Serbo-Croatian: paž (sh) m, паж m
• Slovak: páža n, pážatko n
• Spanish: page (es) m, pagecito m, paje (es) m
• Swedish: page (sv) c
• Ukrainian: паж m (paž)
• Zazaki: per (diq)

shoulderlength hair

• Finnish: paašikampaus
• German: Pagenschnitt m
• Italian: taglio alla paggetto m, maschietta (it) f, taglio alla maschietta m
• Polish: paź (pl) m
• Romanian: paj (ro) m
• Swedish: pagefrisyr c, page (sv) c

young male attendant at a wedding ceremony

• Danish: brudedreng c (in the service of the bride), brudesvend c (in the service of the bride)
• Finnish: sulhaspoika (in the service of the bridegroom)