beau rôlen.
/bəʊ ˈrəʊl/ A fine acting part; the leading part; also transferred.
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1887 Athenæum 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.
1927 in D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 102 In Ibsen the woman nearly always has the beau rôle.
1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 581/4 The beau rôle at Fontenoy was that of the Irish Brigade.
1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 221 The beau rôle of ‘the prisoner of the Vatican’.
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