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beauty — noun (plural beauties) Etymology: Middle English beaute, bealte, from Anglo French, from bel, beau beautiful, from Latin bellus pretty; akin to Latin bonus good more at bounty Date: 14th century 1. the quality or aggregate of qualities in a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
List of English words of French origin — Great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that around 30% of its vocabulary is of French origin. It is via French that many Latin words have come to the English language. Most of the French vocabulary… … Wikipedia
beauty — /byooh tee/, n., pl. beauties. 1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern,… … Universalium
dame — 1. (da m ) s. f. 1° Titre qu on donnait à la femme d un seigneur, d un châtelain, d un chevalier, d un gentilhomme, par opposition aux femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie qui ont porté pendant longtemps le nom de demoiselles. Fig. • Le hibou… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
horloger — (or lo jé ; l r ne se lie jamais ; au pluriel, l s se lie : des or lo jé z habiles) s. m. Celui qui fait, qui répare les horloges, les pendules, les montres. • Les horlogers prétendent qu ils ne doivent point le droit pour leurs boîtes de… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
beauty — [13] Beauty came via Anglo Norman beute and Old French bealte from Vulgar Latin *bellitas, a derivative of Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (this developed from an earlier, unrecorded *dwenolos, a diminutive form of Old Latin *duenos, *duonos, which is… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
beauty — sb. [bealte]. Wright’s L. P. p. 53 … Oldest English Words
beauty — beau•ty [[t]ˈbyu ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) the quality present in a person or thing that gives intense aesthetic pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind or the senses 2) a beautiful person, esp. a woman 3) a beautiful thing, as a work of art 4)… … From formal English to slang
beauty — [13] Beauty came via Anglo Norman beute and Old French bealte from Vulgar Latin *bellitas, a derivative of Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (this developed from an earlier, unrecorded *dwenolos, a diminutive form of Old Latin *duenos, *duonos, which is… … Word origins
beauty — [byo͞ot′ē] n. pl. beauties [ME beaute < OFr bealte < VL * bellitas < L bellus, pretty, lovely] 1. the quality attributed to whatever pleases or satisfies the senses or mind, as by line, color, form, texture, proportion, rhythmic motion,… … English World dictionary
