principal boy

noun

1. the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman

Example Sentences

Here she was the inevitable principal boy of the burlesques.

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Threw it up and went on the stage as principal boy at five pounds—all to be respectable.

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I must laugh, Frank, old man, it is so funny—what about the Principal Boy?

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"And now I'm going to be the Principal Boy," she laughed quietly back.

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