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Discover LudwigThe word 'pageboy' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that can refer to a young male attendant or messenger, or a hairstyle in which the hair is cut to a length just below the ear and then styled into smooth, even layers. Example: "The pageboy delivered the king's message to the queen." Or "She got a new haircut and asked for a pageboy style."
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pageboy
noun
A boy who serves as a page.
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George Wallace had been in the web of politics since the age of 15 when he got a job as a pageboy in the Alabama state legislature.
"So I went down there, got pageboy, £4/10s-a-week wages, blue suit, buttons, two white gloves.
So when he spotted the advert for a pageboy, he knew it was for him.
She made her Met debut as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto on 9 November 1956 and in eight seasons sang 29 performances of six roles, including Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Oscar (the pageboy in Un ballo in maschera), Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Zerlina and Lucia.
For the gala opening, Schaufuss brought in Royal Ballet stars of the 1970s to fill supporting roles, with the unnerving sight of Wayne Sleep as a pageboy.
He soon grew too big to be a pageboy, and the theatre's management asked him what he wanted to do.
Williams has dyed-red hair, in a sort of wedged pageboy cut, and a wide-eyed look that somehow simultaneously conveys apprehension and assurance.
She was tanned, although it was still early in the summer, and her pageboy hair had a copper sheen — something that you could get easily from a bottle nowadays but that was unusual and enviable then.
In order to play the loutish Roy, who becomes increasingly crass and duplicitous as the movie goes on, Brolin sports what is possibly the worst haircut since Javier Bardem's pageboy in "No Country for Old Men".
I visited a three-story indoor fabric market (South Bund Soft-Spinning Material Market, 399 Lu Jia Bang Road) with Lin Lin Mai, a Kewpie-doll-cute twenty-eight-year-old with an eighteen-inch waist, a perfect pageboy haircut, a dot of hot-pink rouge on each cheek, green racing stripes on her fingernails, and a tattoo representing a crop circle on her back.
Bishop was forty-five, with a long, pale face framed by dark hair that she wore in a pageboy, her bangs slashed just above her small blue eyes.
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