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‖ beauté du diable|bote dy djabl|
[Fr., lit. ‘devil's beauty’.]
Superficial attractiveness; captivating charm.
[1825H. Wilson Memoirs III. 8 She possessed, what the French term, la beauté du diable, namely, youth, and a particularly youthful appearance.] 1863Fraser's Mag. Mar. 309/1 The increasing number of barristers who find themselves unable to resist the beauté du diable of the fair daughters and sisters of the proscribed race [sc. attorneys]. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. viii. 157 Hers is essentially beauté du diable..one of those little faces that have been at the bottom of half the mischiefs the world has seen. 1936E. Bowen in Verschoyle Eng. Novelists 104 Henry Crawford is more energetic, dashing and unscrupulous. He has a certain beauté du diable. 1967H. McCloy Further Side of Fear iii. 41 He studied both photographs. ‘They can't mean ugly as sin! They must mean beauté du diable.’ |