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Fellow bringing roses, perhaps
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beau
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I was very shy but his mischievous grin put me at my ease and we strolled along behind Sally and her beau . ▪ Margarett took a beau to their apartment for dinner and scandalized her old friends by visibly holding his hand. ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"attendant suitor of a lady," 1720, from French beau "the beautiful," noun use of an adjective, from Old French bel "beautiful, handsome, fair, genuine, real" (11c.), from Latin bellus "handsome, fine, pretty, agreeable," diminutive of bonus "good" (see ...
Usage examples of beau.
The small room under the eaves held a cloistered ambience, offering warm sanctuary from the storm outside, hermitage, as well, from the fashionable beau monde and all the obstacles and impediments that world could impose.
Paradis terrestre etait un jardin tres agreable, avec de beaux arbres et tous les animaux de la creation.
He joined the atelier of Carolus-Duran, one of the few artists who welcomed American students, and he quickly passed the rigorous exams to study drawing at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts.
There were shouted greetings and a great deal of laughter: Axel and Anna, Martha and the McGarritys, the Kaes girls trailing beaux, and most of the children of the village, many of them masked.
Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.
Beau Bocage, was the heaviest investor in the expedition, with Marcel de Gruys a close second.
New Orleans and at Beau Bocage, was not ignorant of the nature of human procreation.
If she did not, there was every chance she would never see Beau Bocage again.
Beau Brachman on a Colorado mountaintop awaited starships from Elsewhere to appear and touch down, Pierce stood on his rooftop with an illustrated Hyginus in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and discerned for the first time the moon rise into the polluted sky in a sign, the sign of Pisces, two fishes bow-tied at the tail.
Beau Brachman had sat listening to their discussion with a faint smile of amusement, as though knowing better, keeping quiet, while Pierce asked questions and Val put forth notions, laughing at her own unhandiness with logical intellection.
Beau Brachman had in fact been imagining a coupling, too: blind, humid, and hot, hot enough to turn the Androgyne inside out, and make him all male.
She picked up the phone again, said a number out loud to herself to remember it right, and called Beau Brachman in the Faraway Hills.
Providence, there seemed a chance about midnight of picking up some helpless beau, or desperate cabless dandy, the choicest victim, in a midnight shower, of these public conveyancers.
There could be no doubt that Fanny, dazzled by the attentions of a London beau, had plunged headlong into her first love-affair, and was ripe for any outrageous folly.
Eliste climbed in, realised there was no attendant to close the door, bemusedly pulled it shut herself, and the fiacre rattled off down the Avenue Para beau.