beauship en · NOUN
Etymology
From beau + -ship.
Meanings
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(dated, humorous, uncountable) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears, At what his beauship says, but what he wears
Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch? Ah! we were mad fellows then
1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1