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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
beau
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.
▪ Marjorie brought a beau to Prides, and Margarett flirted with him, even, Betty thought, took him to bed.
▪ She'd arrived in the sidecar of Miss Brahms's current beau and her coiffure had suffered terrible punishment as a result.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beau

Beau \Beau\ (b[=o]), n.; pl. F. Beaux (E. pron. b[=o]z), E. Beaus (b[=o]z). [F., a fop, fr. beau fine, beautiful, fr. L. bellus pretty, fine, for bonulus, dim. of bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Belle, Beauty.]

  1. A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

  2. A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a suitor or lover.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beau

"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 bene-). Meaning "man who attends excessively to dress, etiquette, etc.; a fop; a dandy" is from 1680s, short for French beau garçon "pretty boy" (1660s).

Wiktionary
beau

n. (given name: male) used since mid-twentieth century.

WordNet
beau
  1. n. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: boyfriend, fellow, swain, young man]

  2. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]

  3. [also: beaux (pl)]

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Beau (guitarist)

Beau, born Christopher John Trevor Midgley, is a British singer-songwriter and twelve-string guitar player, who first became known in the late 1960s through his recordings for John Peel's Dandelion Records label. He released two albums on Dandelion – Beau (1969) and Creation (1971) (which featured Jim Milne and Steve Clayton from Tractor as backing musicians on some tracks), plus the single "1917 Revolution" which had greater success abroad than it did in the United Kingdom. "1917 Revolution" is said to have been the inspiration for America's " A Horse with No Name".

His best known song however is probably "The Roses of Eyam" (written under the name of John Trevor) which folk singer Roy Bailey took around the world and which he recorded on his Hard Times LP in 1985. This version was subsequently re-released on Bailey's Past Masters CD in 1998. Beau himself released the song officially for the first time as a bonus track on the 2007 British reissue of the original Beau disc ( Cherry Red), and on the 2008 Japanese release of the same album (Airmail Recordings).

A CD of eighteen previously unissued songs – Edge of the Dark – was issued on the Angel Air label in 2009, followed in 2011 by the Cherry Red download albums The Way It Was and Creation Recreated. The latter was a remastered, partially remixed and much expanded version of 1971's Creation. Beau also contributed a previously unreleased song – In The Court of Conscience – to vinyl specialist Fruits de Mer Records' 2012 Annual, and a 180gram vinyl version of The Way It Was was issued by Ritual Echo Records in 2012.

A download album – Fables & Façades – was also released in 2012 on the Cherry Red label. An unusual departure, this was made up of eighteen mostly full-band arrangements recorded between 1978 and 2000.

Beau has produced several hundred songs - newly recorded albums continue to be released by Cherry Red for both download and streaming - and he has also recorded under the names of John Trevor, Trevor Midgley and Simfonica. Though mostly known as a "folk" performer, his writing has also been strongly influenced by blues and rock. He co-wrote " WARHOL – The Musical" with Steve Clayton of the band Tractor.

Beau

Beau may refer to:

  • Beau (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname or surname
  • Beau (guitarist) (born 1946), songwriter and 12-string guitar specialist
  • Beau (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Trebbiano
  • Neoregelia 'Beau', a hybrid cultivar
  • "Beau" (poem), a poem by James Stewart
  • The Beau, a short-lived Irish literary journal
  • Beau's All Natural Brewing Company, a Canadian microbrewery
Beau (poem)

"Beau", also known as "I’ll Never Forget a Dog Named Beau", is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart. A humorous tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1981, and later published in the 1989 collection Jimmy Stewart and his Poems.

Beau (name)

Beau is a given name, nickname and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

  • Beau Bokan (born 1981), American musician and songwriter
  • Beau Boulter (born 1942), former Congressman from Texas and political lobbyist
  • Beau Brady (born 1981), Australian actor
  • Beau Brinkley (born 1990), American football player
  • Beau Burchell (born 1978), American musician and record producer
  • Beau Casson (born 1982), Australian cricketer
  • Beau Champion (born 1986), Australian Rugby League player
  • Beau Falloon (born 1987), Australian Rugby League player
  • Beau Garrett (born 1982), American actress
  • Beau Henry (born 1990), Australian Rugby League footballer
  • Beau Hoopman (born 1980), American rower and Olympic gold medalist
  • Beau Kazer (born 1951), Canadian actor
  • Beau Landry (born 1991), Canadian football player
  • Beau Maister (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
  • Beau McCoy (born 1980), Nebraska state senator
  • Beau McDonald (born 1979), Australian rules footballer
  • Beau Mirchoff (born 1989), American-born Canadian actor
  • Beau Robinson (born 1986), Australian rugby union footballer
  • Beau Ryan (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player and comedian
  • Beau Sia (born 1976), American poet
  • Beau Smith (born 1954), American comic book writer and columnist
  • Beau Waters (born 1986), Australian rules footballer

Nickname:

  • Beau Bell (1907–1977), Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Beau Biden (1969-2015), American lawyer, soldier and politician
  • Beau Bridges (born 1941), American actor
  • Beau Brummell (1778–1840), arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England
  • Beau Nash (1674–1762), dandy and leader of fashion in 18th-century Britain
  • Beau Rials (born 1962), American television infomercial host, producer and writer
  • Jimmy Walker (1881–1946), mayor of New York also known as Beau James
  • Beau James, stage name of lawyer-actor James "Beau" Brincefield

Surname:

  • Heinie Beau (1911–1987), American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist

Fictional characters:

  • Michael "Beau" Geste, protagonist of the novel Beau Geste and numerous adaptations
  • Beau Felton, homicide detective on the American television show Homicide: Life on the Street
  • Beau Richardson, villain and murder victim on the crime/mystery serial The Edge of Night

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.