belamour

English

Etymology

From Middle French bel amour.

Noun

belamour (plural belamours)

1. (obsolete) A loved one; a darling, lover.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].