First Known Use: 1653
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beau
noun \ˈbō\
: a woman's male lover or friend
plural beaux \ˈbōz\ or beaus
Full Definition of BEAU
1
: dandy 1
2
: boyfriend 2
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Examples of BEAU
- Her beaux between marriage generally fell into two categories: ineffectual pretty boys or handsome brutes. —Joanne Kaufman, People , 21 Mar. 1988
- This was essentially the vehicle that had been perfected, through more than a century or two, for—and by—a continuing line of fops, beaux, macaronis, dudes, bucks, blades, swells, bloods and mashers. —Osbert Sitwell, The Scarlet Tree, 1975
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Origin of BEAU
French, from beau beautiful, from Latin bellus pretty
Rhymes with BEAU
blow, bow, bro, Chou, crow, do, doe, dough, floe, flow, foe, fro, froe, glow, go, grow, ho, hoe, jo, Jo, joe, know, lo, low, mho, mot, mow, no, No, O, oh, owe, Poe, pow, pro, rho, roe, row, Rowe, schmo, sew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, sow, stow, Stowe, strow, though, throe, throw, toe, tow, trow, whoa, woe, yo
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