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Merhabalar!

Jane Austen'ın Sense & Sensibility kitabında, özellikle belli bir bölümde çok sık geçiyor bu "beaux" sözcüğü ve yer yer de aynı tarzda erkekleri kastetmek için "smart young men" gibi ifadeler kullanılıyor. Şu alıntıda mesela birçok örnek var (ve kitapta da sözcüğün ilk anılmaya başladığı yer):

"And had you a great many smart beaux there? I suppose you have not so many in this part of the world; for my part, I think they are a vast addition always."
"But why should you think," said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, "that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex?"
"Nay, my dear, I'm sure I don't pretend to say that there an't. I'm sure there's a vast many smart beaux in Exeter; but you know, how could I tell what smart beaux there might be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods might find it dull at Barton, if they had not so many as they used to have. But perhaps you young ladies may not care about the beaux, and had as lief be without them as with them. For my part, I think they are vastly agreeable, provided they dress smart and behave civil. But I can't bear to see them dirty and nasty. Now there's Mr. Rose at Exeter, a prodigious smart young man, quite a beau, clerk to Mr. Simpson, you know, and yet if you do but meet him of a morning, he is not fit to be seen. I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?"
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Benim aklıma gelen karşılık "kavalye", ama metinde kullanıldığı haliyle "beau"nun anlamına hakkını verebiliyor mu, emin değilim. Sizin görüşünüzü de almak isterim.
Teşekkürler.