beauism en · NOUN
Etymology
From beau + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of dandyism
At the present day, such an equipment would look outré, but, at the time we are writing, of ^([sic]) it was considered the ne-plus-ultra of beauism.
1848, W. Urquhart, Sir John May Mead, the London Merchant. A Romance of Real Life, page 214: