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 "rank of a partition" is sometimes used to describe a different concept: the rank of a partition λ is the largest integer "i" such that λ has at least "i" parts each of which is no smaller than "i". Equivalently, this is the length of the main diagonal in the Young diagram or Ferrers diagram for λ, or the side-length of the Durfee square of λ. The table of ranks of partitions of 5 is given below. Ranks of the partitions of the integer 5 Rank of a partition In mathematics, particularly in the fields of number theory and combinatorics,