See beau in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "[H]e could not but turn with ineffable contempt to the tawdry beaus and belles from the city, who presumed to mingle in the fashionable gala.",
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"ref": "1917, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, page 142:",
"text": "Hannah's beau takes all her time 'n' thought, and when she gits a husband her mother'll be out o' sight and out o' mind.",
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"ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:",
"text": "“I don’t see how. But anyhow, you’ll be rich some day—your Aunt Elizabeth will likely leave you all her money, Mother says. So I don’t care if you are living on charity—I love you and I’m going to stick up for you. Have you got a beau, Emily?”\n“No,” cried Emily, blushing violently and quite scandalized at the idea. “Why, I’m only eleven.”",
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"ref": "2009 December 10, Philippa Bourke, Monsters and Critics:",
"text": "Kristin Davis has taken time out to enjoy the surf and sand with her Australian beau, photographer Russell James.",
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"ref": "2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Reporters ask her about her love life—her current beau is rumored to be Conor Kennedy, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy—even if they get nowhere.",
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"text": "Everyone was feeling grandacious, as if getting dressed for a night of beauing.",
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