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‖ beau rôle|bo rol|
[Fr., = fine rôle.]
A fine acting part; the leading part; also transf.
1887Athenæum 29 Oct. 561/3 Each assumed the moral government of the world without appealing to any revelation. This assumption, of course, gives the beau rôle to a prophet. 1927in D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 102 In Ibsen the woman nearly always has the beau rôle. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 581/4 The beau rôle at Fontenoy was that of the Irish Brigade. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 221 The beau rôle of ‘the prisoner of the Vatican’. |