In 8 bevew. [Fr. bévue, f. bé-, bes-, pejorative prefix + vue VIEW sb. Naturalized in 18th c.] An error of inadvertence.
1716. M. Davies, Ath. Brit., I. Pref. 3. The Follies of the Ignorant, the bevews of Government.
1813. Scott, in Lockhart (1839), IV. 71. He will content himself with avoiding such bevues in future.
