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beau

[boh] / boʊ /


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Afterward the beau monde had a few days to find new costumes for the Monday Mayday masquerade.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

When she begins dating the owner of a local pet shop, Iona immediately falls in step with her yuppie new beau.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

It’s not surprising that Mr. Serrano found his way to Ms. Wilson, who, like Mr. Duncan, the author’s beau ideal of a player, “banks in beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2025

He’d gotten a tip Nicole Castro was meeting her new beau there at about four p.m.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

This is a huge limitation, as Flock has been used by officers to track not just exes but the new beaus with whom they have moved on.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

As fate would have it, all that time spent researching how bats find their beaus may have led to another pairing.

From National Geographic Feb. 14, 2024

Shortly afterward, the two were out and about on a double date with their beaus.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2023

To fight back, he started giving in-person architecture tours — in Kyiv and elsewhere — with hopes of convincing more people that his brutalist beaus are worth keeping.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

I hadn’t seen a picture of her since she’d been in high school and now she was twenty-one and taught music and had lots of beaus.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

The entire family showed up, including Kylie Jenner in a white ballgown with a matching hat and big sister Kourtney Kardashian in deconstructed Thom Browne to go with beaux Travis Barker’s Thom Browne suit.

From Washington Times May 3, 2022

The book, as it stands, feels ominously loveless, more hospitable to dolts than to eligible beaux, yet at least seven writers have sought to flesh it out and, in so doing, to warm it up.

From The New Yorker Mar. 5, 2017

The “Follies” tale of two showgirls and their beaux bears the doom of the ancient Greek stage.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2016

The hulking beaux arts buildings that line streets such as Spring and Broadway are a testament to downtown’s former commercial might.

From The Guardian Jan. 26, 2016

But Fanny spent time with her other beaux, and Charles had another love, too—beetles.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman




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