beaupere

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noun

A father.

OriginOld French beau →
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Meanings

nounbeaupere (plural beauperes)

plural beauperes

  1. obsoleteA father.
  2. obsoleteA companion.

    Now leading him into a ſecret ſhade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heauens vew,[…].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 401

Origin

  1. Old Frenchbeau“fair”
  2. Englishbeaupere

From Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”).

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APA

beaupere. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beaupere

MLA

“beaupere.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beaupere. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beaupere,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beaupere.

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