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beau

[boh] / boʊ /


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Separately, UK actor Hannah Waddingham is depicted next to her "NHS surgeon beau", who the paper says has got a "Hollywood makeover".

From BBC Jul. 29, 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

Old enough to know that John Donaldson, her beau of more than a decade, was the man she wanted to marry.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

Four o’clock came and went, and neither Nicole nor the beau or whoever he was showed up.

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

The director Sara Gunnarsdottir ruthlessly illustrates the gulf between the high schooler’s florid romanticism and her beaus, who are, mostly, a parade of creeps.

From New York Times Feb. 16, 2023

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

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 art deco, beaux arts and neoclassical style includes limestone panels, enhanced with floral and fluted designs.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2017

On either side of the esplanade that runs between the Champs Élysées and the Seine is Charles Girault’s exquisite pair of beaux arts buildings, the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.

From The Guardian Nov. 5, 2016

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




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