Crossword clues for beauty
beauty
- Drugstore section
- Rose variety
- Beast's love
- Wilco & Billy Bragg "Hesitating ___"
- Subject of many articles in Allure and Seventeen
- She fell for a beast
- Miss Universe, e.g
- It "provoketh thieves sooner than gold," per the Bard
- Emma Watson, in a 2017 film
- Beast's beloved
- Age follower?
- A must for Miss America
- "The ___ of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together": Carl Sagan
- "American ___" (1999 movie about, in many ways, what it means to be an American)
- "American ___" (1999 midlife-crisis drama starring Kevin Spacey that won the Best Picture Oscar)
- "Age before ___"
- "__ and the Beast"
- Competition in which there should be a fair winner
- Lovely place; mole
- Room for personal improvement?
- Miss Universe, e.g.
- Pageant winner
- Knockout
- With 33-Down, where to go for the ends of 16-, 20-, 40-, 56- and 62-Across
- The qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- A very attractive or seductive looking woman
- An outstanding example of its kind
- Truth, to Keats
- ___ sleep
- Kind of parlor
- Kind of queen or sleep
- Mole buys tea after ordering something to brew it in
- Cracker from a tube, possibly today's last
- Show person former airline task bar first
- Allure of Scottish isle, reportedly, at journey's end
- United in defeat - ultimate in generosity? That’s a lovely thing to see
- It's in the eye of the beholder
- Miss America, e.g
- Figure in a classic fairy tale
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beauty \Beau"ty\ (b[=u]"t[y^]), n.; pl. Beauties (b[=u]"t[i^]z). [OE. beaute, beute, OF. beaut['e], biaut['e], Pr. beltat, F. beaut['e], fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.]
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An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the [ae]sthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.
--Locke.The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.
--Wordsworth.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.
--Coleridge. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
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A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
All the admired beauties of Verona.
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Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.]
She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
--Jer. Taylor.Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "physical attractiveness," also "goodness, courtesy," from Anglo-French beute, Old French biauté "beauty, seductiveness, beautiful person" (12c., Modern French beauté), earlier beltet, from Vulgar Latin bellitatem (nominative bellitas) "state of being handsome," from Latin bellus "pretty, handsome, charming," in classical Latin used especially of women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men, perhaps from PIE *dw-en-elo-, diminutive of root *deu- (2) "to do, perform; show favor, revere" (see bene-). Famously defined by Stendhal as la promesse de bonheur "the promise of happiness."\n\n[I]t takes the one hundred men in ten million who understand beauty, which isn't imitation or an improvement on the beautiful as already understood by the common herd, twenty or thirty years to convince the twenty thousand next most sensitive souls after their own that this new beauty is truly beautiful.
[Stendhal, "Life of Henry Brulard"]
\nReplaced Old English wlite. Concrete meaning "a beautiful woman" is first recorded late 14c. Beauty sleep "sleep before midnight" is attested by 1850. Beauty spot is from 1650s. Beauty parlor is from 1894.\n\nThe sudden death of a young woman a little over a week ago in a down-town "beauty parlor" has served to direct public attention to those institutions and their methods. In this case, it seems, the operator painted on or injected into the patron's facial blemish a 4-per-cent cocaine solution and then applied an electrode, the sponge of which was saturated with carbolized water.["The Western Druggist," October 1894]
\nBeauté du diable (literally "devil's beauty") is used as a French phrase in English from 1825.Wiktionary
adv. (context Canada English) Of high quality, well done. interj. (context Canada English) Thanks! Cool! n. 1 The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness. 2 Someone who is beautiful. 3 Something that is particularly good or pleasing. 4 An excellent or egregious example of something. 5 (qualifier: with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius 6 (context particle obsolete English) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). 7 Beauty treatment; cosmetology. 8 (context obsolete English) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
WordNet
n. the qualities that give pleasure to the senses [ant: ugliness]
a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut" [syn: beaut]
Wikipedia
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, culture, social psychology and sociology. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.
The experience of "beauty" often involves an interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this can be a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes.
Beauty is an aesthetic characteristic.
Beauty may also refer to:
Beauty is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Toshio Gotō. The film explores themes of love, beauty, kabuki, and the strength of human spirit. It was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.
Beauty is a novel by Raphael Selbourne first published in 2009 about a young Muslim woman – the eponymous heroine – in search of personal freedom. Beauty was awarded the 2009 Costa First Novel Award.
Beauty is the second demo recorded by Neutral Milk Hotel, recorded in 1992, released on a cassette tape.
"Beauty" is a song by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released as the second single and final single on their 1997 album Generation Swine. The song charted at number 37 on the Mainstream rock charts.
Beauty is a 2011 South African film directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Beauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery.
Beauty is the eighth solo studio album by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both a Japanese and an international version were released by Virgin Records in 1989 and 1990, respectively. The international release contains the track "You Do Me (Edit)" featuring singer Jill Jones, a song previously released as a single.
Beauty is a 1998 CBS-TV-movie starring Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan and Hal Holbrook based on Susan Wilson's 1997 novel.
Beauty for ancient thinkers existed both in form, which is the material world as it is, and as embodied in the spirit, which is the world of mental formations.
Usage examples of "beauty".
Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.
His brother, Thrasimund, was the greatest and most accomplished of the Vandal kings, whom he excelled in beauty, prudence, and magnanimity of soul.
Evensong An Epitaph on a Goldfish Beauty Accurst To a Dead Friend Sunset in the City The City in Moonlight V.
Halder addressed at once to Camilla, such unceremonious praise of her beauty, that, affrighted and offended, she hastily seized the arm of Mrs.
It was Monsignor Marbot who went in procession to the battlefield of the Marne with crucifix and banner and white-robed acolytes, and in an allocution of singular beauty consecrated those stricken fields with the last rites of the Church.
Theodora von Schenck and found her an utterly different kind of woman: handsome in her own way, but entirely lacking the aristocratic beauty of Ambrosine or the ethereal delicacy of Eloise.
Indeed, beauty was hardly limited to her class, since antenatal gene repair and intelligent nutrition produced handsome folk in every walk of life.
And so the days came and went, and the girl Antonomasia reached the age of fourteen, with a beauty so perfect that nature could do nothing to improve it.
Beauty, courtesy, and knowledge, and whatsoever appertaining to goodness a lady can have, has Death, who has destroyed all good in the person of my lady the empress, snatched from us and cheated us of.
Beauty is a secondary: the more primal appetition, not patent to sense, our movement towards our good, gives witness that The Good is the earlier, the prior.
The difficulty therefore which he apprehended there might be in corrupting this young wench, and the danger which would accrue to his character on the discovery, were such strong dissuasives, that it is probable he at first intended to have contented himself with the pleasing ideas which the sight of beauty furnishes us with.
My eyes followed the delicacy of the arching ribs, the heartbreaking beauty of the sculptured skull with a sense of awed astonishment.
They appeal to us not religiously, not historically, not intellectually, but sensuously and artistically through their rhythmic lines, their palpitating flesh, their beauty of color, and in the light and atmosphere that surround them.
The statue was female, exquisite in the beauty of its subject and the artistry of its crafter.
The young Rashemi paused to listen, entranced by the artless beauty of the song.