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Beaumont

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Beau·mont  (bmnt)
A city of southeast Texas north-northeast of Houston. A ship canal links the city with the Gulf of Mexico. Population: 110,000.
Beau·mont  (bmnt, -mnt), Francis 1584-1616.
English poet and playwright. He wrote his major works, including The Maid's Tragedy (1611), The Coxcomb (1612), and The Knight of Malta (1619), with John Fletcher.
Beau·mont  (bmnt), William 1785-1853.
American surgeon whose Physiology of Digestion (1833) revolutionized the study of gastric digestion.
Beaumont [ˈbəʊmɒnt]
n
(Placename) a city in SE Texas. Pop.: 113 866 (2000)
Beaumont2
n
(Biographies / Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Francis. l584-1616, English dramatist, who collaborated with John Fletcher on plays including The Knight of the Burning Pestle (l607) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611)
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Noun1.Beaumont - United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853)
William Beaumont
2.BeaumontBeaumont - English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)
Francis Beaumont
3.Beaumont - a city of southeastern Texas near Houston
Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico


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I suppose I have not been a great reader of the drama, and I do not know that I have ever greatly relished any plays but those of Shakespeare and Goldoni, and two or three of Beaumont and Fletcher, and one or so of Marlow's, and all of Ibsen's and Maeterlinck's.
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One evening, on the road leading to Beaumont, she came upon a wagon loaded with hay, and when she overtook it, she recognised Theodore.
A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context
Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet.
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