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principal boy

noun

  1. the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Here she was the inevitable principal boy of the burlesques.

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

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

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

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