bel-accoyle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French bel (“beautiful”) + acoil (“welcome”).
Noun
[edit]- (obsolete) A kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome. [15th–16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But Glaucè, seeing all that chuanced there, / Well weeting how their errour to assoyle, / Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere, / And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle […].