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beau
[boh] 
noun, plural beaus, beaux [bohz] , verb –noun
| 1. | a frequent and attentive male companion. |
| 2. | a male escort for a girl or woman. |
| 3. | a dandy; fop. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to escort (a girl or woman), as to a social gathering. |
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < F < L bellus beautiful
1250–1300; ME < F < L bellus beautiful
Related forms:
beauish, adjective
Synonyms:
3. peacock, swell, blade, dude, coxcomb.
3. peacock, swell, blade, dude, coxcomb.
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| beau (bō) n. pl. beaus or beaux (bōz)
[French, from beau, bel, handsome, from Latin bellus; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Beau
Beau\, n.; pl. F. Beaux (E. pron. b?z), E. Beaus. [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 lover.
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Language Translation for : beau
Spanish:
bonita, hermosa, guapa,
German:
schön,
Japanese:
美しい
beau
"attendant suitor of a lady," 1720, from Fr. beau "the beautiful," n. use of adj., from O.Fr. bel, from L. bellus "handsome, fine," dim. of bonus "good." Meaning "man who attends excessively to dress, etiquette, etc.; a fop; a dandy" is 1687, short for Fr. beau garçon "pretty boy" (c.1665). Beaumonde "the fashionable world" is from 1714. Beau-ideal (1801) is from Fr. beau idéal "the ideal beauty, beautifulness as an abstract ideal," in which beau is the subject, but as Eng. usually puts the adj. first, the sense has shifted in Eng. toward "perfect type or model." Beaux arts "the fine arts" is 1821, from Fr.; also in reference to Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated there.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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