ETYMOLOGY
from French bel (fair) + amour (love)
EXAMPLE (for n. 1)
“… Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure,
With silken curtens and gold couerlets,
Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure,
Yet neither spinnes nor cardes, ne cares nor frets,
But to her mother Nature all her care she lets. …”
From: The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1590
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