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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 74",
"text": "Everyone was feeling grandacious, as if getting dressed for a night of beauing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To act as a beau (towards); to court or woo."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/boʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "bow"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-beau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/06/En-uk-beau.ogg/En-uk-beau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/En-uk-beau.ogg"
}
],
"word": "beau"
}
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