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bel-accoyle

bel-accoyle noun: a kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.

Noun

bel-accoyle (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.
    • But Glaucè, seeing all that chuanced there, / Well weeting how their errour to assoyle, / Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere, / And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of bel-accoyle

From Middle French bel (“beautiful”) + acoil (“welcome”).

Questions about bel-accoyle

What does bel-accoyle mean?
Bel-accoyle means a kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.
What part of speech is bel-accoyle?
Bel-accoyle is a noun.

Words near bel-accoyle in the dictionary

  1. Bel and the Dragon
  2. bel canto
  3. bel esprit
  4. Bel Paese
  5. bel-
  6. bel-accoyle
  7. Bel-Air
  8. Bela
  9. Bela Shangul
  10. belabor
  11. belabor the point

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