Obs. Also bellamour(e. [f. F. bel fair + amour love.]
1. A loved one of either sex; lady love, fair lady.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 16. She decks her bounteous boure, With silken curtens … to shrowd her sumptuous belamoure.
1603. J. Davies, Microcosm., 92. His wisdome’s pow’r Did choose me for his chiefest Bellamoure.
2. Love; a glance or look of love.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., xlvii. Those eyes from whence are shed Infinite belamours.
3. Applied to some unidentified flower.
1595. Spenser, Sonn., lxiii. Her snowy browes lyke budded Bellamoures.
