belamour
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French bel amour.
Noun
[edit]belamour (plural belamours)
- (obsolete) A loved one; a darling, lover.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].