principal boy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The queen's "Bond-girl" acting role, for example, can be traced to Elizabeth's little-known teenage penchant for amateur theatricals at Windsor Castle, when she apparently used to play the principal boy.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2012
She drilled the chorus, trained the dancers, coached the speakers, arranged the costumes, and during rehearsals, at any rate, was sometimes stage-manager, pianist, prompter, dancing mistress, Lord Chamberlain, and principal boy, all combined.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
She was principal boy at Blackpool two years ago.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 by Various
Her uncle, sitting back silently in his big arm-chair, with the quiet twinkle in his keen eyes, remarked, "And you will look like the principal boy at a pantomime."
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page
The "principal boy" had just skipped on to the stage.
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
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