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  • noun Plural form of beaute.

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Examples

  • Adrienne and I had quite the interesting talk about diaryland ... devallyk, mustangusmc, and other now beloved beautes ...

    ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002

  • Voltaire the praise of having added to the original "quelques beautes de dialogue particulières a sa [Fielding's] nation."

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • Choudens in Paris was right, when he remarked years ago to a German critic: "l'Allemagne un jour comprendra les beautes de Djamileh."

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • An adaptation from Moliere, produced in 1733, under the title of the Miser, won from Voltaire the praise of having added to the original “quelques beautes de dialogue particulieres a sa [Fielding's] nation.”

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • While it lacks Niecks 'beautes sauvages, is it not far loftier in conception and execution than op. 6, in F sharp minor?

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • Je ne veux point soupconner le sieur Johnson d'etre un mauvais plaisant, et d'aimer trop le vin; mais je trouve un peu extraordinaire qu'il compte la bouffonnerie et l'ivrognerie parmi les beautes du theatre tragique; la raison qu'il en donne n'est pas moins singuliere.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • As a matter of fact, he produced a version of L'Avare at Drury Lane in the following year, which entirely outshone the older versions of Shadwell and Ozell, and gained from Voltaire the praise of having added to the original “quelques beautes de dialogue particulieres a sa (Fielding's) nation.”

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • _L'Avare_ at Drury Lane in the following year, which entirely outshone the older versions of Shadwell and Ozell, and gained from Voltaire the praise of having added to the original "_quelques beautes de dialogue particulieres a sa_ (Fielding's) _nation_."

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • In the later ones we look in vain for the beautes sauvages which charm us in the earlier ones ” they strike us rather by their propriety of manner and scholarly elaboration; in short, they have more of reflective composition and less of spontaneous effusion about them.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Drury Lane in the following year, which entirely outshone the older versions of Shadwell and Ozell, and gained from Voltaire the praise of having added to the original “quelques beautes de dialogue particulieres a sa (Fielding’s) nation.”

    Fielding 1843

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