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beau /bəʊ /noun (plural beaux or beaus /bəʊz/ /bəʊ/) dated1A boyfriend or male admirer.Should a girl wish to elicit gasps of admiration from her friends and family when introducing her latest beau, a Blues rower is an ideal date....- Like all fictional gay men Carrie can rely on him to escort her to parties when she doesn't have a beau.
- Since your date is busy with my date, how about dancing with your old beau?
Synonyms boyfriend, sweetheart, lover, fiancé, darling, partner, significant other, escort, young man, admirer, suitor, follower informal steady, date, toy boy, fancy man, fella literary swain 2A rich, fashionable young man; a dandy.When my mom was young and impressionable, she went on a date with a beau who was wearing a velvet suit.Synonyms dandy, fop, gallant, cavalier, man about town informal swell, toff British informal boyf archaic dude, blade, blood, coxcomb, popinjay Origin Late 17th century (in sense 2): from French, literally 'handsome', from Latin bellus. Rhymes aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou |