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beau

noun dated

1 she was approached by three potential beaux:

boyfriend, sweetheart, lover, fiancé, darling, partner, significant other, escort, young man, admirer, suitor, follower;

informal steady, date;

British, informal , dated fancy man;

literary swain.

2 an eighteenth-century beau:

dandy, fop, gallant, cavalier, man about town;

informal swell, toff;

British, informal boyf;

archaic dude, blade, blood, coxcomb, popinjay.

beau Oxford Dictionary of English