beauship
nounEtymology From beau + -ship.
- 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 then1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1