Associations to the word «Bete»

Wiktionary

BÊTE DE SCÈNE, noun. A feral player; an actor whose intense performance is likened to a wild animal.
BÊTE DE SCÈNE, noun. A performer with innate talent.
BÊTE NOIR, noun. Misspelling of bête noire.
BÊTE NOIRE, noun. An anathema; someone or something which is particularly disliked or avoided; an object of aversion, the bane of one’s existence.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope