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Grammar : Noun
Spell : byoo-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbyu ti



Definition of beauties

Origin :
  • early 14c., "physical attractiveness," also "goodness, courtesy," from Anglo-French beute, Old French biauté "beauty, seductiveness, beautiful person" (12c., Modern French beauté), earlier beltet, from Vulgar Latin bellitatem (nominative bellitas) "state of being handsome," from Latin bellus "pretty, handsome, charming," in classical Latin used especially of women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men, perhaps from PIE *dw-en-elo-, diminutive of root *deu- "to do, perform, show favor, revere" (see bene-). Famously defined by Stendhal as la promesse de bonheur "the promise of happiness."
  • [I]t takes the one hundred men in ten million who understand beauty, which isn't imitation or an improvement on the beautiful as already understood by the common herd, twenty or thirty years to convince the twenty thousand next most sensitive souls after their own that this new beauty is truly beautiful. [Stendhal, "Life of Henry Brulard"]
  • Replaced Old English wlite. Concrete meaning "a beautiful woman" is first recorded late 14c. Beauty sleep "sleep before midnight" is attested by 1850. Beauty spot is from 1650s. Beauty parlor is from 1894.
  • The sudden death of a young woman a little over a week ago in a down-town "beauty parlor" has served to direct public attention to those institutions and their methods. In this case, it seems, the operator painted on or injected into the patron's facial blemish a 4-per-cent cocaine solution and then applied an electrode, the sponge of which was saturated with carbolized water. ["The Western Druggist," October 1894]
  • Beauté du diable (literally "devil's beauty") is used as a French phrase in English from 1825.
  • noun physical attractiveness
  • noun good-looking person
  • noun advantage
Example sentences :
  • I will attempt no description of the beauties that met them at every turn.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • What is there that I can do with all the beauties of my parlors?
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Comrade Ossipon was familiar with the beauties of its journalistic style.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • And so this wench is to stock the parish with beauties, I hope.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding
  • They loved the beauties of nature, and had a keen sense for discovering them.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Their admiration of the beauties of nature had brought them together.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • She isn't beautiful, but it's not only the beauties who marry!
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Our actresses are the exact counterpart of those passionate French beauties.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • It was across the valley from us, so we had a good view of its beauties.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • Her beauties were ripened, and her attractions spread themselves in the face of day.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

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