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belamour

belamour noun: a loved one; a darling, lover.

Noun

belamour (plural belamours)

  1. (obsolete) A loved one; a darling, lover.
    • Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of belamour

pluralbelamours

Origin of belamour

From Middle French bel amour.

Questions about belamour

What does belamour mean?
Belamour means a loved one; a darling, lover.
What part of speech is belamour?
Belamour is a noun.
What is the plural of belamour?
The plural of belamour is belamours.

Words near belamour in the dictionary

  1. belaired
  2. Belairs
  3. belam
  4. belammed
  5. belamming
  6. belamour
  7. belamours
  8. belamped
  9. belams
  10. Beland
  11. belandre

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