belaud
Americanverb (used with object)
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I cannot understand those folk who sniff at the English music-hall and belaud the Parisian shows.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
I've a notion All's bad that the critics belaud.
From Shapes of Clay by Bierce, Ambrose
What amazed me was the calm with which these folks gathered together and commenced to belaud their noble selves, their country, and their "institootions" and everything else that was theirs.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
In the fifteenth century the fashion was to belaud one's own city even at the expense of others.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
Crassus on this occasion, between whom and Cicero there was never much friendship, took occasion to belaud the late great Consul on account of his Catiline successes.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
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