Page boy (wedding attendant) Page boy (wedding attendant) A page boy is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion, a social dance. This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions. Traditionally, page boys carry the bride's train, especially if the bride is wearing a dress with a long train. Because of the difficulty of managing the train, page boys are
Rank of a partition called a "strict partition" of "n". The integers "λ", λ, ..., "λ" are the "parts" of the partition. The number of parts in the partition "λ" is "k" and the largest part in the partition is "λ". The rank of the partition "λ" (whether ordinary or strict) is defined as "λ" − "k". The ranks of the partitions of "n" take the following values and no others: The following table gives the ranks of the various partitions of the number 5. Ranks of the partitions of the integer 5 The following notations are used to specify how many partitions have