bellibone

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Etymology

From Middle French belle et bonne (“beautiful and good”).

Noun

bellibone (plural bellibones)

  1. (archaic, very rare) A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC, folio 13, recto:
      Pan may be pꝛoud, that euer he begot / ſuch a Bellibone, […]
    • 1979 September 24, Lauren Calobrisi, “ Story Time: The Kotee and the Bellibone”, in Newsday, Suffolk edition, volume 40, number 22, Long Island, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., part II, page 14:
      There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying.
    • 2012 November, Leon Robert McNarry, “The Erendrake”, in Poems, Tales & Whimsy, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 28:
      In the quiet cockshut after a heavy darg, a boonfellow likes to croodle with her fanger (or he with his bellibone) as they watch the sunset through the eyethurl.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bellibone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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