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单词 pageboy
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pageboyn.

Brit. /ˈpeɪdʒbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈpeɪdʒˌbɔɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: page n.1, boy n.1 and int.
Etymology: < page n.1 + boy n.1 and int.
1.
a. A boy, usually in livery, employed as part of a private household or (now more usually) in a hotel, club, or similar establishment as a messenger, porter, etc. Cf. page n.1 6b. Now frequently historical.In quot. 1973 in extended use: a radio pager (pager n.2).
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy
galopin1567
page1781
pageboy1859
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > boy > page
in buttons1842
button boy1844
buttons1848
pageboy1859
society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager
pager1954
radio pager1954
pocket pager1955
bleeper1964
pageboy1973
bleep1982
1859 G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby House ii, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 8/2 The little page-boy, the lowest of all the varlets in the establishment, spent a whole night..in darkness and tears when he heard that ‘Mistress Mary was..troubled with a slight cold.’
1874 A. J. Munby Diary 29 June in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 368 ‘Goodbye, William!’ she said to the page boy who opened the hall door for us.
1903 Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 7/2 There are large numbers of page-boys employed in West-end clubs and hotels.
1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty iii. 57 Outside Captain Oakes' study door in the daytime and his chamber door at night was always stationed on duty one of two little black page boys. It was the duty of these buttons to run errands, carry messages.
1961 L. P. Hartley Two for River 53 ‘Mr. Lenthall, please, Mr. Lenthall, please,’ intoned a page-boy in a high-pitched nasal sing-song.
1973 Times 17 Jan. 4/5 The Post Office yesterday launched its radio ‘pageboy’, a tiny ‘bleeper’ which can be set off by a telephone call.
1992 E. Rhodes Ruth Appleby (BNC) 182 This man was even more splendid than Sammy, the page-boy at Gutermann's, though he lacked Sammy's braided uniform and turban.
b. = page n.1 6a.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > attendant > page
bride boy1614
pagea1668
pageboy1939
1922 Times 27 Feb. 13/5 A child should be at least six years old before she is given the exciting, often tiring, task of acting as a bridesmaid, and the same may be said of the little boy page.]
1939 Times 27 Sept. 11/2 Her bridesmaids were her three sisters... Her brother, Viscount Carlton, dressed in a sailor suit, was page boy.
1994 Wedding & House June 129/1 Walking down the aisle she was accompanied by..Layla's brother Jason in the role of pageboy.
2. Hairdressing. A woman's hairstyle consisting of a shoulder-length bob with the ends turned under. Frequently attributive.The style is supposedly of the kind worn by medieval pages.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair > for women
cockernony1701
Madonna1829
Madonna braid1829
pompadour1872
marumage1880
marcel-waving1904
turban swathe1912
up-do1938
earphones1940
pageboy1976
1938 Modern Home Nov. 48/2 Like ‘growing up’ after that long period of bobs, long bobs and page-boys, don't you think?
1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep i. 13 Her hair was a fine tawny wave cut much shorter than the current fashion of pageboy tresses curled in at the bottom.
1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow i. 27 She still wore her fair hair in a fringe with a page-boy bob.
1976 G. McDonald Confess, Fletch (1977) xxvii. 125 Her hair was a perfect black, shining pageboy.
1991 New Ideas for Hair Styling Feb. 6/2 Long hair shimmers when it's cut straight all around, then styled into a curvy pageboy with a blower and plump round brush.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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