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Definitions: BEAUX |
BEAUXNoun1. Pl. of Beau. Plural1. Of Bel-esprit 2. Of Beau |
Date "BEAUX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Beaus, Beaux. Some words ending in eau have only the English plurals, as bureaus, portmanteaus; others take both the English and the French plurals, as beaus, beaux; flambeaus, flambeaux; plateaus, plateaux; and still others take only the foreign plural; as, bateaux, chateaux, tableaux. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Crosswords: BEAUX |
| English words defined with "BEAUX": beaux arts. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BEAUX": Beaux Esprits, Beaux Yeux ♦ Mule. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BEAUX": Bel-esprit. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Les Beaux dimanches (1974) Little Beaux Pink (1968) Les Beaux yeux d'Agatha (1964) Beaux and Errors (1938) Les Beaux jours (1935) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Vous avez remarqué, docteur, les beaux cheveux de l'enfant? / par Abel Faivre.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | | Vous avez remarqué, docteur, les beaux cheveux de l'enfant? / par Abel Faivre.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Le Lait De Maman Donne De Beaux Bebes / Steve Belew.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Miss Fay Bainter in The Beaux Stratagem, the Players' Production, 1928.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two strings to her beaux.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two strings to her beaux.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Société nationale des beaux arts--Exposition d'art Polonais 1921 / W. Roguski.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | German philosophers, would-be philosophers, and beaux esprits, eagerly seized on this literature, only forgetting, that when these writings immigrated from France into Germany, French social conditions had not immigrated along with them. (reference) |
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| "BEAUX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.16% of the time. "BEAUX" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 63.16% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (plural) | 36.84% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BEAUX": Beaux Arts ♦ Beaux Arts Village. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "BEAUX": Beaux-arts, Beaux-esprits, beaux-livres. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beaux bébés | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "BEAUX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvarló (admirer, beau, fella, feller, lover, philanderer, spark, squire, suitor, Swain, wooer), piperkőc (beau, beaus, blood, buck, dandified young man, dandy, fop, foppish, pansy, pansy boy, posh), lovag (baronet, beau, cavalier, Chevalier, knight), divathős (beau). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fidanzati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eauxbay Щеголи. (various references) pl. od beau. (various references) Pl. De Beau (beaus). (various references) Älskare. (various references) Франти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "BEAUX": flambeaux, jambeaux. (additional references) | |
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"BEAUX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baeu, baeur, Baixa, bauc, baux, bearu, beauc, Beaud, beauf, beaur, beaut, beauy, Bedaux, bemax, betuix, Bezu, bioux, Blaauw, bleau, Ceaux, eaux, Emaux, Lefaux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BEAUX" (pronounced bō") |
| 2 | b ō" | beau, bo, bow, turbot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-u-x" | |
-1 letter: beau, eaux. | |
-2 letters: axe, eau. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, ax, ba, be, ex, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-u-x" | |
+2 letters: bateaux, bauxite, bureaux, exurban, exurbia. | |
+3 letters: bandeaux, batteaux, bauxites, bisexual, bordeaux, extubate, exurbias, jambeaux, saucebox, tableaux. | |
+4 letters: aboideaux, aboiteaux, bisexuals, boxhauled, excusable, excusably, extubated, extubates, exuberant, exuberate, flambeaux, unmixable. | |
+5 letters: ambisexual, bisexually, bordereaux, excludable, executable, extrudable, extubating, exuberance, exuberated, exuberates, exurbanite, sauceboxes, subtextual. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 41 55 58 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- ..- -..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000001 01010101 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E A U X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0041 0055 0058 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639355558 |
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