beauship

From beau +‎ -ship.

beauship (uncountable)

1. (dated, humorous) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
   • 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold

     You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
     At what his beauship says, but what he wears

   • 1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1

     Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch? Ah! we were mad fellows then

• “beauship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.