Beau vs Paramour - What's the difference?
beau | paramour | Related terms |
(dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 21
(dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
* 1917 , Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm , p. 142:
* 2009 , Philippa Bourke, Monsters and Critics [http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1518335.php/Kristin-Davis-takes-cover-on-beach-with-beau#ixzz0ZRsqa5SS], Dec 10, 2009:
A male escort.
*Chaucer
*:For par amour I loved her first ere thou.
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*:Is this trouthe said Palomydes / Thenne shall we hastely here of sire Tristram / And as for to say that I loue la Beale Isoud peramours I dare make good that I doo / and that she hath my seruyse aboue alle other ladyes / and shalle haue the terme of my lyf
An illicit lover, either male or female.
* (rfdate), Macaulay:
Beau is a related term of paramour.
As a proper noun beau
is (male) used since mid-twentieth century.As an adverb paramour is
.As a noun paramour is
an illicit lover, either male or female.beau
English
Noun
(en-noun)- “I do not 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 mens’(SIC) being beaux —they have something else to do.”
- 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.
- Kristin Davis has taken time out to enjoy the surf and sand with her Australian beau , photographer Russell James.
See also
* beau- * beautiful * BeauReferences
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----paramour
English
Alternative forms
* paramoursAdverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour .