beau
Example Sentences
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When she begins dating the owner of a local pet shop, Iona immediately falls in step with her yuppie new beau.
From Salon
“How does Washington come on? Many beaux? Many believers? Many friends? Answer these questions you wicked little Maggie.”
From Literature
One by one her girlfriends caught a beau, but not her.
From Literature
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
When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
