belamour means A loved one; a darling, lover. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
BELAMOUR — [Noun] A beloved person; a cherished darling or lover. From the Middle French phrase bel amour, meaning 'beautiful love' or 'fair love'. Unlike paramour (which suggests the secrecy and heat of an illicit affair) or inamorata (which fixes the object as definitively, and exclusively, feminine), belamour is an archaic, guileless term of pure, genderless adoration. It is the name whispered in a forgotten sonnet, the quiet constancy of a familiar silhouette seen through a leaded window, the scent of rain on the skin of someone just come home—a vessel for devotion so pure its very utterance feels like an act of excavation into a quiet, chivalric past.
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- A loved one; a darling, lover.“Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].”