rare. [f. BOY sb.2, app. with a confusion of -AGE suffix and AGE sb.] Boyhood.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., III. (1673), 104/1. When Alexander in his Adolescency or Boyage was sacrificing to the gods.
1798. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy (1817), Pref. 23. Putting the little events of my boyage into metre.
