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/peɪd͡ʒ/ noun C2
  1. A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
  2. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. (US)
  3. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  4. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  5. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  6. A message sent to someone's pager. (dated)
  7. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

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The last of these, at Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistolling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 211 · C1
It is clearly a reference to the words in a page of some book.
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
Until I am told which page and which book I am powerless.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 3 · C1
“Clearly because those are words which were not contained in the page in question.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 4 · C1

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