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Beauty   /bjˈuti/   Listen
noun
Beauty  n.  (pl. beauties)  
1.
An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense. "Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder." "The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole." "The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty."
2.
A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
3.
A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. "All the admired beauties of Verona."
4.
Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. (Obs.) "She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty."
Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.






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"Beauty" Quotes from Famous Books



... "What a beauty!" he exclaimed enthusiastically, forgetting that grooms should be utterly without enthusiasm. He reached out his hand to pat the black nose, when a warning cry restrained him. Pirate's ears ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

... to be found all over England. The majority of them are examples of an architecture that has not been surpassed for majesty, beauty, size, and constructional skill. Such buildings, without the help of the literary and other memorials, testify by themselves to the greatness of ...
— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson

... an annoying little southerly wind blowing now, and this serves to show the beauty of our snow walls. The ponies are standing under their lee in the bright sun as ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... work would have been bread and meat to him, but her pitiful attempts at flattery were like bungling touches on raw flesh. Had he written the veriest rags of sentimental rubbish, he knew she would as passionately have defended their "beauty." ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow

... industrial machine is not the only factor that American business in France must reckon with after the war. The French woman is fast becoming a force, thus setting up an altogether unequal and almost unfair competition, because to shrewd wit and resource is added the power of sex and beauty. ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson


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