beaupere

See also: beau-père

English

Etymology

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

Noun

beaupere (plural beauperes)

1. (obsolete) A father.

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

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