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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



... Garden will now be fast losing its beauty, and the cold winds and frosty nights will be everywhere heralding the coming of winter, when, more through force of circumstances than choice, our Gardening proclivities become considerably abated. Throughout the present month, however, ...
— Little Folks (October 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... Constable of Chester, one of the most redoubted warriors of the time, had laid at Eveline's feet the prize which his chivalry had gained in a great tournament held near that ancient town. Gwenwyn considered these triumphs as so many additional recommendations to Eveline; her beauty was incontestable, and she was heiress of the fortress which he so much longed to possess, and which he began now to think might be acquired by means more smooth than those with which he was in the use of working ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

... undergo.... It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to ...
— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon

... a long debate with herself whether she should instantly go to bed and pray that Jacques might be killed at Saumur, or whether she should array herself in all her charms, and literally dazzle her lover into fondness and obedience by her beauty and graces—after many tears the latter ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope

... distillations left A liquid prisoner, pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was; But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show, ...
— The Art of Perfumery - And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants • G. W. Septimus Piesse


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