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belles laides

belles laides is the plural of belle laide.

Meaning of belle laide

Noun

belle laide (plural belles laides)

  1. A woman who is attractive despite not being conventionally beautiful.
    • Perhaps her looks were not considered downright repulsive. But she was not even what in those years was called une belle laide, being neither feminine, nor soft, nor submissive.1979, Peter Drucker, The Man Who Invented Kissinger, John Wiley, published 1997, page 143

Questions about belles laides

What is belles laides the plural of?
Belles laides is the plural of belle laide.

Words near belles laides in the dictionary

  1. Bellerose
  2. Belleroses
  3. bellers
  4. belles
  5. belles dames sans merci
  6. belles laides
  7. belles lettres
  8. belles of the ball
  9. belles sabreuses
  10. belles-letters
  11. belles-lettres

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