beauteous

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  1. adjective Beautiful, especially to the sight.

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  • Where twelve bright signs, in beauteous order lye. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • She was bright, beauteous, and cold as a gem, — with clear perceptions of character within a narrow limit, — enjoying society, and always surrounded with admirers, of whose feelings she seemed quite unconscious. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • Angel beauteous, angel best, —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • Or beauteous, streak'd with many a mingled hue, —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • “ 'Various as beauteous, Nature, is thy face,' —  Crabbe
 

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Etymologies (1)

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  1. Early modern English also beautious, beuteous, bewtious, beuteus, from Middle English bewteous, etc., from bewte, beaute, beauty, + -ous.
 

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/ˈbjutəəs/
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