beau
noun[C]
old-fashioneduk/bəʊ/us/boʊ/pluralbeauxuk/bəʊz/us/boʊz/beausaboyfriend
男友，情郎- But I'm an old woman, I am, and I've never had time to be a young one, and I've never had a beau nor nothing.
- I suppose you've had a beau some time or other.
- Is he your beau?
- Once he told her frankly that if she ever got a beau, he—Jimmy—was going to quit.
- Why, I vow, I could sometimes have taken him for a beau.
Examplesofbeau
beau
It was, he wrote, a distinctive character of thebeaumonde that they were ' all equally cautious of offending ' anyone.
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The politeness of thebeaumonde, in other words, begot the commercial world.
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The appellation "beau" used in the accompanying text indicates that he will not leave off without at least giving it a try.
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This is a fulsome statement of the validity of imputing a hereditary source of feeble-mindedness and the potentialbeaumonde of preventive procreation.
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Owen's lack of status and wealth plus his misbehavior make him, in the eyes of the text, an unsuitablebeau.
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However, in comparing these two things, we mustbeauin mind that there are more children to-day than there were last year.
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They considered that the white administrator was thebeauidealof manhood.
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We see people waiting in the cold while some young lady is ringing up herbeau.
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That is thebeauideal human being for the health economist.
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She goes to visit herbeau, and finds him smartly-dressed and in conversation with a theatrical impresario.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He turns out to be her collegebeau.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They made no pretense of attempting to win seats, calling the effort abeaugeste to raise awareness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I have been abeauthese forty-seven years, and it would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only other time that occurred was when, through a bizarre turn-of-events, her beau's wife was revived by paramedics after she was declared dead.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is built in the beaux arts architectural style.
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