bel-accoyle

noun

A kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.

OriginMiddle French bel →
First used 15th–16th c.
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Meanings

nounbel-accoyle (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableA kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.First known use 15th–16th c.

    But Glaucè, seeing all that chuanced there, / Well weeting how their errour to assoyle, / Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere, / And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchbel“beautiful”
  2. Englishbel-accoyle

From Middle French bel (“beautiful”) + acoil (“welcome”).

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