beauty
/ˈbjuti/ noun A2- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Someone who is beautiful. · Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.
- Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing. · What a goal! That was a real beauty!
- An excellent or egregious example of something. · He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
- The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. · The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology. · a hair and beauty salon
Plural beauties
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Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in.
Dantès himself was simply, but becomingly, clad in the dress peculiar to the merchant service—a costume somewhat between a military and a civil garb; and with his fine countenance, radiant with joy and happiness, a more perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined.
“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her.
“I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘_She_ a beauty!
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