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† bonair(e, a. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 bonure, 4–6 boner(e, -aire, 5 -our, -ayr, -eyre, 6 bonnair, 6–7 bonayre, 4–7 bonair.
[a. OF. bonnaire gentle, courteous, affable, shortened from debonnaire. The accent shifted in ME.]
1. Well-bred, gentle, courteous, kind, complaisant.
c1300K. Alis. 6732 With wordes bonere, Heom answerith swithe faire. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B 733 Blessed be þow..so boner & þewed. c1430How Gd. Wijf tauȝte Dau. 103 in Babees Bk. (1868) 41 To bitter ne to bonour with hem þat þou ne be. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 1727 Sche ys meke and boneyre. 1542Sarum Manual 64 To be bonere and buxum in bedde and at the borde. 1600Holland Livy iv. ii. 446 To have been..made more bonair and gratious. 1623Cockeram i, Bonayre, gentle, milde. 1696Phillips Bonair, see Debonair.
2. quasi-adv. = bonairly.
c1320Sir Tristr. i. xxix, The mariner spac bonair. c1350Will. Palerne 332 Bere þe boxumly & bonure. |