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