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A boyfriend with a French accent and a fraction of the commitment.
means A woman's boyfriend or male admirer — a somewhat old-fashioned, slightly flowery word for the man courting her.
from Straight from French 'beau,' meaning 'handsome' or 'fine,' from Latin 'bellus' (pretty, charming). English borrowed it whole in the 1600s, first as a word for a dandy or fashionable man-about-town obsessed with his own finery, before it softened into meaning 'sweetheart.' The French plural 'beaux' still shows up at weddings and dances, trailing a little perfume of old-world courtship behind it.
- origin
- French for handsome, borrowed by English flirts
- usage
- peaked in letters your grandmother wrote
- vibe
- implies courtship, not Netflix and silence
- plural twist
- beaux, because one was never enough