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beauty noun [ ˈbjuːti ]

• a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.
• "I was struck by her beauty"
• a beautiful woman.
• "she was considered a great beauty in her youth"
Similar: beautiful woman, belle, vision, charmer, enchantress, Venus, goddess, beauty queen, English rose, picture, seductress, femme fatale, looker, good looker, lovely, stunner, knockout, bombshell, dish, cracker, smasher, peach, eyeful, bit of all right,
Opposite: ugly woman, hag,

beauty adjective

• good; excellent (used as a general term of approval).
Origin: Middle English: from Old French beaute, based on Latin bellus ‘beautiful, fine’.

beauty and the beast

• used in reference to two people, one of whom is regarded as much more attractive than the other.
"writers have dubbed the couple, cruelly, as the beauty and the beast"

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

• that which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another.

beauty is only skin-deep

• a pleasing appearance is not a guide to character.



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