belamour

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noun

A loved one; a darling, lover.

OriginMiddle French bel amour →
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Meanings

nounbelamour (plural belamours)

plural belamours

  1. obsoleteA loved one; a darling, lover.

    Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].

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

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchbel amour
  2. Englishbelamour

From Middle French bel amour.

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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