Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Beaupere

Beau′pereˊ

,
Noun.
[F.
beau pére
;
beau
fair +
pére
father.]
1.
A father.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.
2.
A companion.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Definition 2024


beaupere

beaupere

See also: beau-père

English

Noun

beaupere (plural beauperes)

  1. (obsolete) A father.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) A companion.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      Now leading him into a secret shade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew [...].