beaupere

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See also: beau-père

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”).

Noun

beaupere (plural beauperes)

  1. (obsolete) A father.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) A companion.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      Now leading him into a secret shade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew [...].
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