Her beaux between marriage generally fell into two categories: ineffectual pretty boys or handsome brutes.—Joanne Kaufman, People, 21 Mar. 1988This was essentially the vehicle that had been perfected, through more than a century or two, for—and by—a continuing line of fops, beaux, macaronis, dudes, bucks, blades, swells, bloods and mashers.—Osbert Sitwell, The Scarlet Tree, 1975
She introduced us to her latest beau.
her new beau brought flowers when he picked her up for their first date
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Her complicated grief deepens a rift with her teenage daughter Clara (Grace), whose college dreams and new beau (Thames) Morgan does not approve of.—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025 The page also featured a snap of a guy sitting in the audience at the reunion special, presumably Monica's new beau.—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 Ever since the pop megastar appeared at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023 to root on her new beau, tight end Travis Kelce, NFL viewership among young women has skyrocketed.—Jennifer Halper, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025 Last year’s The Tortured Poets Department, which recounted Swift’s breakups with rocker beau Matty Healy and actor/co-writer Joe Alwyn, bristled at expectations and disappeared into fantasy.—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beau
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Etymology
borrowed from French, from beau, bel (masculine), belle (feminine) "beautiful, good-looking," going back to Old French bel, going back to Latin bellus, probably going back (via *duellos, assimilated from *duenlos) to *dwenelos, diminutive of *dwe-nos "good" (whence Old Latin duenos, Latin bonus) — more at bounty
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