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beauship

beauship noun: the state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.

Noun

beauship (uncountable)

  1. (dated, humorous) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
    • You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
      At what his beauship says, but what he wears1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
    • Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch? Ah! we were mad fellows then1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1

Origin of beauship

From beau + -ship.

Questions about beauship

What does beauship mean?
Beauship means the state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
What part of speech is beauship?
Beauship is a noun.

Words near beauship in the dictionary

  1. beaus
  2. Beausale
  3. Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall
  4. beauseant
  5. beauseants
  6. beauship
  7. Beausoleil
  8. Beausoleils
  9. beaut
  10. beaute
  11. beauteosity

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