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beau-ideal

beau-ideal is the alternative form of beau idéal.

Meaning of beau idéal

Noun

beau idéal (plural beaux idéals)

  1. Ideal excellence, or an imaginary standard of perfection.
    • I never knew any debatable point not maintained on both sides by unanswerable arguments; and yet you are angry that he has not thrown every advantage aside to enact your beau-idéal of patriotic excellence.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 312
  2. An emulable eidolon embodying excellence in a particular respect.

Forms of beau-ideal

pluralbeau-ideals

Questions about beau-ideal

What is beau-ideal the alternative form of?
Beau-ideal is the alternative form of beau idéal.

Words near beau-ideal in the dictionary

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  2. beau sabreur
  3. Beau's lines
  4. beau-catcher
  5. beau-catchers
  6. beau-ideal
  7. beau-ideals
  8. Beaubien
  9. Beaubiens
  10. Beaubrun
  11. Beaubruns

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