favori

Noun

favori (plural favoris)

1. A favorite.
   • Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply like a wave—like nothing else, and who yesterday was Queen out of the Epiphany cake and chose Robinet (the French Painter) as her favori with the most pretty confusion possible—into the bargain...1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson
   • With characteristic humour, Ninon divided her admirers into three classes: her martyrs, her caprices and her favoris, and into one or other of these classes fell nearly every gallant in Paris.1908, Lilian Rea, The Life and Times of Marie Madeleine Countess of La Fayette, Methuen, page 109
2. (archaic, in plural) Sideburns or side whiskers.
   • M. de Whiskerburg was a very young man, very tall, with a very fine figure, and very fine features. In short, a sort of Hungarian Apollo; only his beard, his mustachios, his whiskers, his favoris, his padishas, his sultanas, his mignonettas, his dulcibellas, did not certainly entitle him to the...1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter XIX, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 247–248
   • The Count twisted his favoris, twirled his moustaches, and bit his nether lip; then, taking up the Court Magazine, fixed his eyes on the portrait of the 'Hon. Frances Eleanor de Vere, Wentworth, St. Leger,' and muttered in an audible apostrophe, "How lovely! and how like!"1835, Sydney Morgan, The Princesse; Or the Beguine, Baudry, page 386