beaux

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • IPA(key): /bəʊ/, (especially spoken) /bəʊz/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ, -əʊz
  • Homophone: bow

Noun

beaux

  1. plural of beau
    • 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Fortune-Telling”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 53:
      She said that girl ’d have three beaux, and that she'd marry the poorest one of the three. It all come out just as she’d said. The girl had three beaux, and she took and married the worst one of the lot.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bo/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

beaux

  1. masculine plural of beau

Noun

beaux m

  1. plural of beau
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