beautie

Noun

beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
   • A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5

   Synonyms:

   good-lookingness

2. Someone who is beautiful.
   • Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

   Synonyms:

   belle

3. (in plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
   • There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii
4. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
   • What a goal! That was a real beauty!
5. An excellent or egregious example of something.
   • He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!
6. The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
   • The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

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