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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: beau 'beautiful', from Latin bellus; BEAUTY

beau

 noun
     
beau plural beaux or beaus [countable] old-fashioned
1 a woman's close friend or lover
2DC a fashionable well-dressed man
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