Monday, September 20, 2010

Pp: Pages (Hotel Style)


Definition:

  1. A boy who acted as a knight's attendent as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.
  2. One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theatre, club or the U.S. Congress or another legislature.  
Simple Sentence to Use at the Next Hotel You Stay In:
Calling the front desk, "Can you send a page right away, with the complementary towell, toothpaste, and bar of soap to room 212, thanks!"

Literary Context:
Pages swished quietly past the skirts and luggage of new arrivals.  pg 91

Word Hunt: 
Found the word in the book Loving Frank.   I knew the meaning but I thought what if people only have the one meaning of the word page to mean parts of a book.  Or a sheet of paper.   The whole paragraph would be lost and look completely different, you would have floating sheets of paper quietly passing the skirts and luggage of new arrivals.  I would want to know what was written on the sheets of paper.  But this actually means that people with messages were running this way and that.   


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