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