page boy

noun

plural page boys

1

: a boy serving as a page

2

usually pageboy

ˈpāj-ˌbȯi 

plural pageboys : an often shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair rolled under

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

—Joan Didion

a pageboy haircut

Examples of page boy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Beatrice and Edo wed in July 2020, and his son Christopher Woolf (from a previous relationship) adorably served as a page boy at their wedding. —Meredith Kile, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025

Princess Charlotte watching Prince George be a page boy during King Charles III's Coronation has gone viral on TikTok. —Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

Others envisioned them as flower girls (17 percent) or page boys (13 percent), while a few liked the idea of a canine best man (9 percent). —Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024

In October of 1968, WWD reported that Kennedy Onassis had worn the beige chiffon and lace dress to the wedding of Bunny Mellon’s daughter Eliza Lloyd and Viscount Moore, where Caroline Kennedy was a flower girl and John F. Kennedy, Jr. was a page boy. —Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for page boy

• corduroy
• fauntleroy
• iroquois
• ahoy
• alloy
• annoy
• carboy
• convoy
• cowboy
• decoy
• deploy
• destroy