different between bague vs beazle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.

Noun

bague (plural bagues)

1. (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

French

Etymology

From Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin. Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch,ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, collar, bracelet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. ring

Further reading

• “bague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bauge

Norman

Etymology

Of Germanic origins, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
2. (Jersey) haw (fruit)

English

Etymology

See bezel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bi?z??]

Noun

beazle (plural beazles)

1. (rare) A bezel (collet of a ring, the rim which encloses the jewel and into which the jewel is set).
   • 1810, The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, a translation of a French work by T. Nugent; a gloss of a Greek word on page 187:

     The beazle or collet of a ring, that which contains the apple of the eye, a kind of ornament of women.

   • 1847, G. S. Bedford, translator of A Practical Treatise on Midwifery, by Nicolas Charles Chailly-Honoré, page 470:

     Now let us suppose that the placenta is inserted on one of these muscles, which is not at all uncommon, and that the circular fibres, the most remote from the orifice of the tube, should contract spasmodically, the after-birth will be enclosed in this species of cavity, as a stone in the beazle of a ring (dans le chaton d'une bague).

   • 1889, A group of Eastern Romances and Stories, from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu, translated by W. A. Clouston; The Three Deceitful Women, page 355:

     ONCE on a time there were three whales of the sea of fraud and deceit — three dragons of the nature of thunder and the quickness of lightning — three defamers of honor and reputation — in other words, three men-deceiving, lascivious women [...]. One of them was sitting in the court of justice of the Kází's embraces; the second was the precious gem of the bazár-master's diadem of compliance; and the third was the beazle and ornament of the signet-ring of the life and soul of the superintendent of police. They were constantly entrapping the fawns of the prairie of deceit, [...]

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:beazle.

Translations