beauship
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
beauship (uncountable)
- (dated, humorous) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
- 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
- You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
At what his beauship says, but what he wears
- You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
- 1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1
- Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch? Ah! we were mad fellows then
- 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
References[edit]
- “beauship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.