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- noun Plural form of
beau .
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Examples
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Apparently, I am so far out of touch with Ottawa that I didn't know about the creation of a new brewery (called beaus) (complete with blog).
Planet Haskell 2008
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When the Thompson Female Seminary graduated my mother in June of 1939, my mother was hurt to realize that the Dairy School had already had its graduation and was closed; the fancier, out-of-town boys had gone home, and her two or three 'beaus' (as she called them) — who she might have hoped would ask her to her own graduation dance — were gone.
The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John, 1942- 1981
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When other girls had been content to study fashions and styles, and chatter "beaus" and husbands, she had given herself up to the study of the wood-pulp trade, and the world's market of the material she was interested in.
The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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I'm to upset the milk pails, tie a tin can to the calf's tail, hide under the sofa, when your country 'beaus' come to see you, and all that. "
The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays Laura Lee Hope
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"I had 'beaus' enough, I reckon, when I was eighteen.
The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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RE: Asgard can't think primitively - how often does anyone overlook the simple answer beaus they start over thinking something?
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Despite visits from both beaus, with J-WOWWs display up similar to a knight upon a white steed (or Escalade) with a fistful of roses, a prior relationships crumbled over a array of tearful duck-phone conversations.
'Jersey Shore' recap: Ruined relationships, but perfect hair | EW.com admin 2009
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Despite visits from both beaus, with J-WOWWs display up similar to a knight upon a white steed (or Escalade) with a fistful of roses, a prior relationships crumbled over a array of tearful duck-phone conversations.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Ms. Popular Transfer Student, Sarah Palin, dragged out her coquettish tease so long, even the most bewitched of beaus lost interest.
Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011
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Ms. Popular Transfer Student, Sarah Palin, dragged out her coquettish tease so long, even the most bewitched of beaus lost interest.
Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011
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