beauty

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In his many minor works he has endowed us with an inexhaustible heritage of beauty--beauty which is "about the best thing God invents."

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  1. noun The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.
  2. noun One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.
  3. noun A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling: The beauty of the venture is that we stand to lose nothing.
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  • Certainly a difficult story to interpret but the beauty is the sheer poetry and timing displayed by the dancers in relation to the music 'Eternal Light: A Requiem.' —  The Stirrer
  • The only downside to their beauty is the invisible walls that prevent you from wandering off the beaten path and exploring the wonder of the artist's creations. —  Latest from PALGN
  • I hate woman that think that their beauty is a tool or weapon.
  • In the middle of all this beauty is the dashboard. —  Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
  • But when you do, you obey instinctively, because they have had plastic surgery too, and their beauty is a cruel beauty, the kind that inspires awe and fear. —  Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog
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beauty:   beauties
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  1. Middle English beaute, from Old French biaute, from Vulgar Latin *bellitās, from Latin bellus, pretty; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also beuty, bewty, from Middle English bewty, bewte, beute, beaute, earliest form bealte, from Old French biaute, bealtet, beltet, French beauté, = Provencal beltat, beutat = Spanish beldad = Portuguese beldade = Italian beltà, from Middle Latin bellita(t-)s, beauty, from Latin bellus, beautiful, fair: see beau and bell.
  2. from Middle English bewtyen, from bewty, etc., beauty: see beauty, n.
 

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