Obs. rare. [? Can the name have arisen in some way from Fr. bonne aventure or It. buonaventura good luck, as if ‘happy-go-lucky fellows, adventurers.’] See quot. Cf. BONAVENTURE 3.

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1643.  Five Years K. Jas. etc., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), V. 351. Divers sects of vicious persons … as the sect of roaring-boys, boneventors, bravado’s, quarterers, and such like, being persons prodigal … having run themselves in debt.

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