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Answer for the clue "Shoulder-length hairstyle ", 7 letters:
pageboy

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page ] a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The pageboy (or page boy ) is a modern female or male hairstyle named after what was believed to be the "pudding-basin" haircut of a late medieval page boy . It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. Often there is a fringe ...

Usage examples of pageboy.

She looked waifish and lost in the big loose robe, cinched tight at the waist, a Ganymede with the soft tumbled pageboy hair.

Her Mama, quite as sensible as herself of the ridiculous nature of her indisposition, had announced her to be quite worn down by the exigencies of fashionable life, and had whisked her off to Kent in a post-chaise-and-four, where, in a comfortable mansion suitably retired from the haunts of men, she was able not only to recover her health and looks in seclusion, but also to communicate her complaint to two abigails and a youthful pageboy.

As the master of the house was holding a bachelor dinner-party there that evening, it was small wonder that Bootle, Jason, and the fat pageboy should have looked with as much dismay as respect upon their mistress.

The pageboy appeared through the arch, balancing the double dish of canapés on his head.

The good-looking dame in the pageboy was hanging on to him like he was a life preserver, and the second lieutenant was looking in her eyes, oblivious to anything else.

She had clear skin, shining eyes, a glossy pageboy, and lipsticked lips.

Strong winds sprang up at sunset, and about a year ago, one of the pageboys at the castle had smashed his glider and broken an elbow on one of the rocks below.

The young woman had shared them with all the servants who happened to be with her that afternoon, and it had killed all of them, including an adolescent lamp girl and two pageboys so young their voices hadn’t changed yet.