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belle noun [ bɛl ]

• a beautiful girl or woman, especially the most beautiful at a particular event.
• "the belle of the ball"
Similar: beauty, beautiful woman, dream, vision, picture, pin-up, goddess, Venus, siren, charmer, enchantress, seductress, looker, good looker, lovely, sensation, stunner, knockout, bombshell, dish, cracker, smasher, bobby-dazzler, peach, honey, eyeful, sight for sore eyes, bit of all right,
Origin: early 17th century: from French, feminine of beau, from Latin bella, feminine of bellus ‘beautiful’.


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