beauship
English
Etymology
beau + -ship
Noun
beauship (uncountable)
- (dated, humorous) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
- 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
- You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
At what his beauship says, but what he wears
- You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
- 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for beauship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)