beau
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The Chopin that emerges in “Becoming George” is far from a Romantic beau ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Will’s beau idéal, Ronald Reagan, used it frequently on the rubber-chicken-and-peas circuit.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 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
During this visit Vincent will bring Theo to a party where they will see the Haanebeeks, including Caroline and her beau, and also her younger sister, Annet.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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
The couple double dates with friends who have their own fictional beaus, going out to high teas and posting photos on Instagram.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
Both beaus met Young's parents – though Young's family wasn't particularly fond of Jones, Us Weekly reports.
From Fox News ● Dec. 22, 2021
A young woman hopes to uncover which of her mother’s former beaus is her father in this romantic musical built around the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2019
Perhaps after November after I prove up, I can think about beaus.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Over the years, Swift has been mocked for the often autobiographical nature of her songs — when not alluding to bad behavior by old beaux, she often pushed back against critics and producers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
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 art deco, beaux arts and neoclassical style building in Seattle’s South Lake Union area was completed in 1931 and declared a city landmark in 1996.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary lists containing beau
Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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