bel-accoyle

English

Etymology

From Middle French bel (“beautiful”) + acoil (“welcome”).

Noun

bel-accoyle (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome. [15th–16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But Glaucè, seeing all that chuanced there, / Well weeting how their errour to assoyle, / Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere, / And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle […].