beau – English noun declension

English noun forms of beau

Noun: beau
Singularbeau
Pluralbeaux; beaus

Sample Sentences

  • “[…]—I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?”
  • “Upon my word,” replied Elinor, “I cannot tell you, for I do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word. But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still, for there is not the smallest alteration in him.”
  • “Oh! dear! one never thinks of married men’s being beaux—they have something else to do.” [1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XXI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 290:]
  • [H]e could not but turn with ineffable contempt to the tawdry beaus and belles from the city, who presumed to mingle in the fashionable gala. [1824, Cut and Come again [pseudonym], “On Cutting”, in Tobias Merton [pseudonym; Samuel Egerton Brydges and Egerton Anthony Brydges], editor, The Literary Magnet of the Belles Lettres, Science, and the Fine Arts: […], volume II, London: William Charlton Wright, […], page 19:]
  • Hannah's beau takes all her time 'n' thought, and when she gits a husband her mother'll be out o' sight and out o' mind. [1917, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, page 142:]
  • “I don’t see how. But anyhow, you’ll be rich some day—your Aunt Elizabeth will likely leave you all her money, Mother says. So I don’t care if you are living on charity—I love you and I’m going to stick up for you. Have you got a beau, Emily?”
  • “No,” cried Emily, blushing violently and quite scandalized at the idea. “Why, I’m only eleven.” [1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:]
  • Kristin Davis has taken time out to enjoy the surf and sand with her Australian beau, photographer Russell James. [2009 December 10, Philippa Bourke, Monsters and Critics:]
  • Reporters ask her about her love life—her current beau is rumored to be Conor Kennedy, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy—even if they get nowhere. [2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]

Etymology

From Middle English beau, beu, bew, bewe, from Old French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello and boo.