bellibone

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noun

A beautiful and nice woman.

OriginMiddle French belle et bonne →
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Meanings

nounbellibone (plural bellibones)

plural bellibones

  1. archaicrareA beautiful and nice woman.

    Pan may be pꝛoud, that euer he begot / ſuch a Bellibone, […]

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 13, recto
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    There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying.

    1979 September 24, Lauren Calobrisi, “[Fun, Games & Stuff: Kidsday] Story Time: The Kotee and the Bellibone”, in Newsday, Suffolk edition, volume 40, number 22, Long Island, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., part II, page 14

    In the quiet cockshut after a heavy darg, a boonfellow likes to croodle with her fanger (or he with his bellibone) as they watch the sunset through the eyethurl.

    2012 November, Leon Robert McNarry, “The Erendrake”, in Poems, Tales & Whimsy, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 28

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchbelle et bonne“beautiful and good”
  2. Englishbellibone

From Middle French belle et bonne (“beautiful and good”).

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APA

bellibone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bellibone

MLA

“bellibone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bellibone. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bellibone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bellibone.

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