Meaning of beau joueur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gambler, especially if skilled.
2. A good sport, a gallant sportsman.

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Examples

“With refilled purses they will visit one of the thousand foreign towns, so glad to receive the beaux joueurs of England.”

“Either the child is frightened by her three consecutive losses, and hesitates, or else the combination for which she is waiting has not yet arisen. Ninety-nine people in the hundred would surmise the former. I, who know Angélique better, and know if ever beau joueur—or rather, I suppose, belle joueuse—was born, it is that small slight child at my side, think otherwise.”

“"You are a heart and soul gambler." ¶ "Confess, however, I am beau joueur. I know how to lose."”

“Beau joüeur, One that plays fair, and never frets at play.”

“In all the "adventures" in life, in peace and in war, the Super-man must exhibit the serenity of the beau joueur, the smiling grace of the dancer, the joyous simplicity of a child at play.”

“"Beau joueur," she had called him. How much fuller of fragrance was the Gallic phrase than the English "sport" or "sportsman"; it was perfumed with breeding; it conjured up gesture, a pinch of snuff and a dust of lace ruffles and—”

“There is no culture in which knowing how to win or lose loyally, without reservations, with self-control in victory, and without rancor in defeat, is not desired. One wants to be en beau joueur.”

“She was this beau joueur of suffrage and its martyr, had he not always thought, and should he be surprised by this last logic of her life, by her ambivalence splitting her apart into the lover and the loved?”

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