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plural ephebes
(historical) An 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
(by extension) A young man; a youth. quotations examples
His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe. Tame essence of [Oscar] Wilde.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], part II [Odyssey], page 190
Indeed Tom was much still the ephebe, sharing boys with his friend though talking of the gravity of marriage.
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford