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bellibone

bellibone noun: a beautiful and nice woman.

Noun

bellibone (plural bellibones)

  1. (archaic, rare) A beautiful and nice woman.
    • Pan may be pꝛoud, that euer he begot / ſuch a Bellibone, […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 13, recto
    • There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying.1979 September 24, Lauren Calobrisi, “[Fun, Games & Stuff: Kidsday] Story Time: The Kotee and the Bellibone”, in Newsday, Suffolk edition, volume 40, number 22, Long Island, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., part...

Forms of bellibone

pluralbellibones

Origin of bellibone

From Middle French belle et bonne (“beautiful and good”).

Questions about bellibone

What does bellibone mean?
Bellibone means a beautiful and nice woman.
What part of speech is bellibone?
Bellibone is a noun.
What is the plural of bellibone?
The plural of bellibone is bellibones.

Words near bellibone in the dictionary

  1. bellhousing
  2. bellhousings
  3. Belli
  4. Belliard
  5. Belliards
  6. bellibone
  7. bellibones
  8. bellic
  9. bellicism
  10. bellicist
  11. bellicistic

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