beaupere
See also: beau-père
English
Etymology
From Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”).
Noun
beaupere (plural beauperes)
- (obsolete) A father.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A companion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 401:
- Now leading him into a ſecret ſhade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heauens vew, […].
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