beautyn.

Brit.

/ˈbjuːti/, U.S.

/ˈbjudi/

Forms: Middle English bealte, Middle English beaultee, Middle English beuaute, Middle English bewete, Middle English bewtee, Middle English bieute, Middle English bovtte, Middle English buute, Middle English–1500s beaulte, Middle English–1500s beaultye, Middle English–1500s beautee, Middle English–1500s beawte, Middle English–1500s bewetye, Middle English–1600s beaute, Middle English–1600s beute, Middle English–1600s bewte, Middle English–1600s bewtie, Middle English–1600s bewty, Middle English–1700s beautie, 1500s beaultie, 1500s beaulty, 1500s beavte, 1500s beawtye, 1500s bewetie, 1500s bewety, 1500s bewghtie, 1500s bewti, 1500s–1600s beautye, 1500s–1600s beawtie, 1500s–1600s beawty, 1500s–1600s beutye, 1500s–1600s bewtye, 1500s–1700s beutie, 1500s–1700s beuty, 1500s– beauty, 1600s beawtte, 1600s butey, 1600s butye, 1800s– booty (English regional (Cheshire)), 1800s– byooty (regional and nonstandard), 1900s– byootie (regional and nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 beaulte, pre-1700 beaute, pre-1700 beautee, pre-1700 beawte, pre-1700 beawtie, pre-1700 beawtye, pre-1700 beute, pre-1700 beutie, pre-1700 beutye, pre-1700 bewte, pre-1700 bewtee, pre-1700 bewtie, pre-1700 bewty, pre-1700 bewtye, pre-1700 1700s beautie, pre-1700 1700s– beauty; (in sense 5d) 1900s– beaudy (Australian and New Zealand), 1900s– beauteeee (New Zealand), 1900s– beeyutay (New Zealand), 1900s– bewdy (Australian and New Zealand).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French beauté.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman beawté, beuté, bewté, Anglo-Norman and Old French bealté, Anglo-Norman and Middle French beauté, Old French, Middle French biauté, Middle French beaulté, beautié (French beauté ) quality of being beautiful, highly pleasing, or attractive (c1100 in Old French as beltet ; late 14th cent. as a personification), beautiful thing (13th cent.), beautiful person, (especially) beautiful woman (second half of the 13th cent.) < bel (see beau adj.) + -tet -ty suffix¹.Compare Old Occitan beltat , beutat (first quarter of the 12th cent.; > Catalan beutat (late 13th cent.), Spanish beldad (mid 13th cent.; c1215 as †beltat , †beltad ), Italian beltà (12th cent.)). The usual words for ‘beauty’ in Spanish and Italian are belleza (late 14th cent.; < bello beautiful (see beau adj. and n.) + -eza -ess suffix²) and bellezza (a1250; < bello beautiful (see beau adj. and n.) + -ezza -ess suffix²) respectively; compare Catalan bellesa (13th cent.). In French, the word showed development of a triphthong (resulting from vocalization of l) which subsequently developed to a diphthong and finally a monophthong /oː/. In late Middle English the word showed the diphthong eu, with open e as first element, and showed the regular development of this sound in modern English, ultimately giving /juː/. On the (difficult) evidence from early modern English orthoepists and rhymes in poetry, see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §244.

I. Abstract senses.

a. That quality of a person (esp. a woman) which is highly pleasing to the sight; perceived physical perfection; attractive harmony of features, figure, or complexion; exceptional grace, elegance, or charm in appearance. See note at beautiful adj. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > specifically of humans

fairnessOE

beautya1350

looksc1400

pertnessc1450

well-favouredness1545

thews1567

good looks1591

bonniness1603

good-lookingness1828

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 50 Heo is cristal of clannesse, ant baner of bealte.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4074 A worschipful lady, þat burde was of beuaute briȝtest in erþe.

a1475 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 232 All owre pryd, Owre Iollytte and fayre bovtte.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. miij^v/2 Samblant to..Absalon in beaulte.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 244 None coulde passe hym in beaute.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 94 Bewties ensigne yet Is crymson in thy lips.

1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 46 Neither could I receive a Princesse more splendant in Beauty, and all good Graces.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 212 A Man, or Child of never so great beauty.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 97. ⁋2 Her beauty was natural and easy.

1793 S. Burrell Poems II. 125 Think thou hast Plebian face, Little beauty, little grace.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 25 There..sat,..All beauty compass'd in a female form, The Princess.

1872 Lakeside Monthly Dec. 433/2 Few could excel her in beauty.

1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth xxx. 327 But across the lad's forehead and almost a mar to his beauty were his two black brows, too heavy and black for his young, pale face.

1964 E. Baker Fine Madness xxii. 257 When it came to beauty, she was everything he'd ever dreamed of.

2001 D. Rhodes Don't tell me Truth about Love 63 He had stood watching for a long time, utterly ensnared by her rare beauty.

b. That quality of a person or thing which is highly pleasing or satisfying to the mind; moral or intellectual excellence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > pleasing fitness > [noun]

beautyc1390

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun]

goodnessOE

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rightness1561

rariety1566

rarity1566

excellentness1569

beautya1586

admirableness1607

primeness1611

gallantry1650

eximiety1656

optimity1656

altesse1660

unexceptionableness1669

excellingness1701

quality1803

sterlingness1815

stupendosity1828

goodliness1832

superbness1832

unexceptionability1837

sweetness and light1867

class1884

rortiness1885

rippingness1903

superstardom1928

motherfucker1977

awesomeness1998

c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 275 (MED) Monnes soule..he maad hit of Beute To his liknesse.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14115 Of all thing scho [sc. Mary] tok till ane, widvten quam es buute [Vesp. beute] nane.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. S7^v This noble-man..had bene so mind-striken by the beautie of vertue in that noble King.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 17 Beautie is defined by Plato the Fulgor, i.e. Lustre of Good.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 212. ⁋3 The greatest beauty of speech [is] to be close and intelligible.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 92. ⁋1 Without incongruity and absurdity we cannot speak of geometrical beauty.

1812 Eclectic Rev. July 675 The superior beauty of the plan Mr. H. recommends..is unquestionable.

1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 254 We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.

1953 Jet 28 May 27 Marital happiness depends on a woman's inner beauty—her personality and character—rather than her outer glamour.

2006 P. J. Nahin Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula Pref. p.xx The gold standard for mathematical beauty is..Euler's formula.

c. That quality of a physical object or animal which is highly pleasing to the sight; perceived physical perfection; exceptional harmony of form or colour.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun]

wlitec825

faireOE

fairnessOE

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pulchritudea1460

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lovelinessa1500

beautifulnessc1500

formosityc1500

fairhood?1503

bewtynes?c1510

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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §258 The beautee of the fruyt deffended.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7857 Þare es bryghtnes and bewte Of alle thing þat men salle þare se.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxviii. f. lxxiiij^v The wonderful beaute of these forsaid creatures.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 412 The rychesse and beaulty of that chaumbre can not be dyscryuyd.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 66 The stately seat of Kenelwoorth Castl, the rare beauty of bylding that hiz honor hath auaunced.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xii. 429 As for fowles, they haue abundance of Parrots and Noyras, more pleasing in beautie, speech and other delights then the Parrot.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 171 The shadowed beauty of the ripened grapes.

1717 A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxxiv. 154 He came to the Play-Table, where drawing a Card, they admired the Beauty of his Ring.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 192. ⁋5 Describing the beauty of his brother's seat.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 4 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

1882 Garden 28 Oct. 381/2 The Chinese Crab..[is] a tree unsurpassed in beauty by any of the class.

1938 Life 6 June 75/1 (advt.) Ordinary window glass can never match the brilliant beauty of Plate glass.

1968 Lapidary Jrnl. Sept. 736 The authors feel that this is going to be an important gemstone because of its exceptional beauty.

2009 Independent 17 Nov. 31/5 Such is the breathtaking beauty of the autumn foliage, people make special trips to gaze open-mouthed on the leaves turning russet and crimson.

d. That quality of a thing which is highly pleasing to the senses generally.

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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 255 To speke and write tho wordis in sum gaynes and bewte.

1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 56 The dialecte of oure tonge, whiche withe beawtye vsethe suche transmutacione.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 182 Shakes, passages, and diminutions, wherein the beauty of a song or piece of music greatly consists.

1820 Edinb. Rev. May 371 Such an effect had the beauty of the melody upon their savage minds, that they relented.

1832 New Eng. Mag. July 15 The sombre beauty of evening, with its deep stillness broken only by the low moanings of affliction.

1914 Mountaineer 7 26 We had rain again that night, but only a light shower which cleared into a morning of radiant beauty.

a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) i. xiv. 49 That trumpet call had an almost liquid beauty.

2010 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 22/3 The Russian soprano..sang Mimi with great warmth and beauty of tone.

†e. In predicative use with non-referential it as subject and to-infinitive clause as complement, corresponding to a predicative use of beautiful adj. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun]

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pleasantry1740

barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xli. 57 It was a great beauty [Fr. c'estoit grant beauté] to beholde the baners and standerdes wauyng.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxliv. 172 Hit was great beautie [Fr. estoit grant beauté] to beholde their puyssant array.

2. As an abstract quality (sometimes personified, esp. in early use).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > personified

beautyc1405

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1068 In the temple of Venus maystow se..Beautee [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 beute] and youthe, baudrye, richesse.

a1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer Complaint unto Pity (Tanner) (1871) l. 70 Cruelte..hath depryued you of youre place That is hye beaute apertenaunt to your grace.

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis f. E.iv.^v Beauty hir self semed but vgly in his sighte, in comparison of the rosed cheekes of his lady.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 56 Who have so leaden eyes, as not to see sweete Beauties showe.

a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 84 Fair Beutye now hes lost hir lampe.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 533 The charm of Beauties powerful glance.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 135 Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §7. 95 Beauty is, for the greater part, some merely sensible quality, acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses.

1820 J. Keats Ode on Grecian Urn in Lamia & Other Poems 116 ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 91 Beauty is perfection unmodified by a predominating expression.

1899 Mind 8 530 In like manner one might throw doubt on the possibility of absolute truth.., or absolute beauty, or any other kind of absolute.

1950 W. J. Bate in H. Levin Perspectives of Crit. 137 As distinct from truth or the good, therefore, beauty is a means rather than an end.

1995 Economist 5 Aug. 90/3 A belief in art for art's sake and that beauty is all.

†3. The prevailing standard of what is beautiful; the fashion. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion

gentryc1400

the fashion1569

mainstream1599

the trim1603

mood1646

mode1649

vogue1649

beauty1653

à la mode1654

turn1695

the kick1699

goût1717

thing1734

taste1739

ton1769

nick1788

the tippy1790

twig1811

latest1814

dernier mot1834

ticket1838

kibosh1880

last cry1887

le (or the) dernier cri1896

flavour of the month (or week)1946

vague1962

1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. xviii. 242 She stain'd her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.

II. Concrete and extended senses.

a. A beautiful person, esp. an attractive woman. bathing, court, postcard, professional, screen, sleeping, society beauty, etc.: see the first element.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person

lovesomea1350

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a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 346 Wo worth þat beaute þat is rouþelees.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cclxxiii/2 I haue loued the ouer late, thou beaulte.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xv. sig. K2^v These young companions make themselues beleeue they love at the first liking of a likely beautie.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 99 The beautious scarfe vailing an Indian beauty .

1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. H What fouler obiect in the world, then to see a young faire, handsome beauty, vnhandsomely dighted and incongruently accoutred.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 37. ¶4 Leonora was formerly a celebrated Beauty, and is still a very lovely Woman.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 99 Oh, he was such a beauty!

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. ii. 57 He was to be introduced to some of the most fashionable beauties.

1880 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 76/1 A blonde beauty, of the delicate, porcelain-tinted type.

1914 Earl Beatty Let. 16 Feb. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. (1951) vi. 127 There were some funny old trouts and some spritely young ones, but no raving beauties.

1974 K. Amis Ending Up vii. 44 She was a great beauty in the Twenties.

2003 N.Y. Times 4 May ii. 10/2 Dr. Wilson turned out to be a leggy beauty with a cloud of blond hair.

†b. As a mass noun: beautiful people, esp. women, collectively. Chiefly with the. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > collectively

beauty1611

beautydom1867

beautyhood1889

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. i. 19 The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 54 There will be The Beauty of this Kingdome.

1761 E. Thompson Meretriciad 5 What don't our Ladies owe to Pompadore? She gives the ugly charms, the beauty more.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry.

1913 Smart Set Feb. 3/1 All the beauty of America was there [sc. at the ball].

c. colloquial (originally U.S., later chiefly Australian and New Zealand) An admirable or excellent person (without reference to physical beauty). Also ironic. Cf. beaut n. 1.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person

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man of mena1470

treasure?1545

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Apollo's swan?1592

man of wax1597

rara avis1607

Titan1611

choice spirita1616

excellency1725

inestimable1728

inimitable1751

cock of the walk1781

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shiner1810

swell1816

trump1819

tip-topper1822

star1829

beauty1832

soarer1895

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Renaissance man1906

exemplum virtutis1914

museum piece1920

superman1925

flyer1930

pistol1935

all-star1949

1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xiv. 121 Hold your tongue, you beauty, or you shall smell brimstone through a nail hole.

1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett 144 Stranger, you are a beauty: and if I know'd your name I'd vote for you next election.

1893 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 453 Oh, Tom, my boy! you're a sharp un, you are! Oh, you beauty!

1924 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 72 My brother..said I was a beauty to go eeling with.

1930 Advertiser (Adelaide) 21 May 17/6 A fine pair of beauties you and McCormack are to sit in judgment on me!

1969 C. Bray Blossom like Rose 193 You drove like a beauty.

2012 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Sept. 86 My mum and dad are just bloody beauties. They've got a great work ethic and I couldn't have any better role models growing up.

d. Beauty and the Beast: a beautiful woman and a man considered to be less attractive forming an ill-matched couple. [After Beauty and the Beast, the title of a fairy tale first published in English in 1811 (attributed to Charles and Mary Ann Lamb), in which Beauty saves her father's life by agreeing to live with the Beast; the tale is probably derived from G. F. Straparola Le Piacevoli Notti (1550) where it is untitled, but the standard English title is probably a translation of the French La Belle et la Bête.]

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1740 La jeune amériquaine et les contes marins I. 51 (title) La belle et la bête.

1781 tr. Comtesse de Genlis Theatre of Educ. I. 31 (title of play) The beauty and the monster.

1811 (title) Beauty and the Beast; or, a Rough outside with a gentle heart.]

1865 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. vii, in Fortn. Rev. 1 July 403 It's a pity he shouldn't be a lover of yours..it would be such a fine instance of Beauty and the Beast.

1892 I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 63 Beauty and the Beast made a rare couple under the wedding canopy.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 353 Pretty girls and ugly men marrying. Beauty and the beast.

1998 Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 27 July On screen was the beauty-and-the-beast pairing of Paul and the lovely Sue Hanson as ‘Miss Diane’ that captivated audiences.

a. A beautiful thing, place, or animal. Also in weakened use: something that is pleasing or useful. black beauty: see black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful thing

beautya1425

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a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 8 And in grete bewtes haue I bene And fosterd furth full tendirly.

1687 G. L. Gentleman's New Jockey i. xii. 37 Then for the Crest, let it be high, strong, and somewhat thin; his Mane somewhat curling, thin, long and soft. These are not only signs of a good Horse, but a Beauty also.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty i. 14 When a vessel sails well, the sailors always call her a beauty.

1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xii. 185 There she blows! Oh, she's a beauty!..a hundred-barreler!

1897 I. Scott How I stole over 10,000 Sheep iii. 11 Our own dogs..turned out to be ‘beauties’.

1915 J. Turner Let. 3 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 11 I have told you of the splendid parcel I got..: I have had another from Mary R., equally a beauty.

1937 C. Paddleford in N.Y. Herald Tribune 2 Apr. 17/1 New pitted prunes are on the market. They are beauties, in shape, color and flavor.

1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. xlviii. 588 This one was a beauty, a car someone had worked on for years, put thousands of dollars into.

2005 Olive July 55 Having at least one chocolate recipe up your sleeve will sort any pudding dilemmas and these little beauties will never fail you.

b. In plural. In or with reference to the titles of anthologies or collections: the choice passages from a particular writer, genre, etc.; (also) the most beautiful examples of works of art. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > collection > choice

beauties?1720

?1720 J. F. de la Fond (title) The beauties of the language of princes.

1737 (title) The Beauties of the English Stage, consisting of all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions and other poetical beauties in the English plays.

1767 (title) The beauties of English poesy. Selected by Oliver Goldsmith.

1786 (title) The beauties of the British Senate, taken from the debates of the Lords and Commons.

1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1895) II. 720 ‘Beauties’ in general are objectionable works.

1860 Athenæum 31 Mar. 442/1 It might have been fancied that the days of ‘Beauties’, ‘Gems’, ‘Anthologies’ were over.

1865 (title) Beauties of Poetry and Art.

1915 J. Turner Let. July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 17 We talked of the beauties of [the poet] Francis Thom[p]son (about whom he has written).

1931 T. P. Cross (title) Harper & bard; the beauties of Irish literature.

c. With distinguishing word: any of various animals (esp. moths) and plants considered to be particularly pleasing or attractive in appearance. Cf. beautiful adj. 4.American, meadow, mountain, pine-barren, rock, spring beauty: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1742 B. Wilkes Twelve New Designs Eng. Butterflies Pl. 11 (caption) The Brindle Beauty Moth.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 104 The Oak Beauty (Biston prodromarius, Leach). The Brindled Beauty (Biston hirtarius, Leach).

1870 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers 307 Rhexia virginica.—Meadow Beauty.

1916 W. A. Hilton in Jrnl. Entomol. & Zool. 8 106 Painted beauty or Hunter's butterfly, Vanessa huntera.

1961 Adv. Genetics 11 175 The black form of Cleora repandata, the mottled beauty, is more hardy than the pale one during the immature stages.

2011 D. Alderton Aquarium & Pond Fish 252 The Coral Beauty varies throughout its range, with stunning shades of blue and green as well as rich yellow hues all being evident.

d. colloquial. An exceptionally good, impressive, or (ironically) egregious example of something. Also in a beauty of a —. Cf. beaut n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing

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Taj Mahal1895

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lollapalooza1904

bearcat1909

beaner1911

grande dame1915

Rolls-Royce1916

the nuts1917

pipperoo1939

rubydazzler1941

rumpty1941

rumptydooler1941

snodger1941

sockeroo1942

sweetheart1942

zinger1955

blue-chipper1957

ring-a-ding1959

premier cru1965

sharpie1970

stormer1978

1882 C. F. Pardon Australians in Eng. 46 Spofforth was bowled by a ‘beauty’ from Mycroft.

1894 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 May 285/2 The caddie tee'd the ball, and I made my drive; a beauty, though I say it—clean, hard, and straight.

1913 Amer. Mag. July 39/3 This time he was so mad he hit Squint without further words. They had a beauty of a fight.

1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror viii. 147 She..swung her right and plugged Slingsby a perfect beauty in the eye.

1951 Evening Post 13 Jan. The Postmaster reported that an earthquake had occurred..and was a ‘beauty’.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Aug. e11 Speaking of gaffes by airline personnel, I witnessed a beauty last month.

2007 M. R. Kohut Compl. Guide Bullies & Bullying vii. 138 When Sheriff T. remarks on Opie's black eye, Opie cheerfully responds, ‘I know, ain't it a beauty?’

a. A beautiful feature or trait; (also) an embellishment or decoration. Usually in plural, and frequently with of or possessive. Also in beauties of nature.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > qualities constituting

beautya1425

beautiful1561

pulchritude1625

fair1633

a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 902 (MED) Þare es no man olive Þat kowth hir bewtese wele descrive.

1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Diii The which is a beautie vnto the whole Coronix.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 88^v The Peare..chalengeth the next place, and is one of the cheefest beauties of the Orcharde.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cx. 3 In the beauties of holinesse.

1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 10 Or the Episodical Ornaments, such as Descriptions, Narrations, and other Beauties, which are not essential to the Play.

1731 J. Wesley Let. 14 Aug. (1931) I. 105 Those beauties of nature that so easily raise our thoughts to the Author of them.

1783 R. Heber Let. 29 Apr. in Heber Lett. (1950) i. 18 I don't think him an ugly boy, yet I cannot as yet descry the number of beauties his Mama sees in him.

1816 G. G. Graham Acct. of First Edinb. Music Festival 110 The profusion of extraordinary beauties to be found in this Symphony Mozart K. 543.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §1. 1 Guided by a friend who knew the country, I became acquainted with its chief beauties.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People ii. 16 The famous wood sculpture of the Yoruba could not possibly have fallen into an area less responsive to its beauties than colonial America.

1997 Independent 9 Apr. Suppl. 23/1 The rugged beauties of nature proved too much for at least three of our land-lubberly sightseers.

2005 Period Living & Trad. Homes Apr. 15/2 Create a peaceful place to relax and enjoy the beauties of the spring garden.

b. With of or possessive. A pleasing or useful aspect of a thing; a merit, a good point. Frequently in the beauty of: the best aspect or advantage of.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > such as to please one [phrase] > that affords special pleasure

the beauty of1753

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 159 That's the beauty of it; to offend and make up at pleasure.

1815 Acad. Recreations Mar. 64 One of its [sc. the Greek language's] beauties is that the number of original and primitive words is comparatively small. This affords the Student one of his chief amusements, viz. digging for Greek roots.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 630 The one beauty of the resolution is its inconsistency.

1874 W. M. Baines Narr. Edward Crewe 104 The beauty of paddling is that any one of the crew can ‘take a spell’ without throwing the rest much out.

1921 Factory Aug. 182/3 A beauty of the plan is that it can be made just as applicable to the industries of any town or city.

1939 Life 17 July 35 (advt.) Nothing in there to wear or cause noise... That's the beauty of it. This tiny gas flame takes the place of moving parts in the freezing system.

1990 Micro Decision Feb. 101/2 One of the beauties of such a set-up is that reports are date-sensitive.

2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 356 The beauty of whittling as a craft is that it can be done by anyone with a small piece of wood and a knife.

7. Particle Physics. [An arbitrary choice of name.] = bottom n. 29. Cf. truth n. 13.

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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > differentiating property > bottom

bottom1975

beauty1977

b1978

bottomness1979

1977 Sci. News 13 Aug. 100/1 The last two [quarks] have been designated rather whimsically ‘truth’ and ‘beauty’ although in a recent statement Lederman names them more prosaically ‘top’ and ‘bottom’.

1985 Daily Tel. 7 May 18 ‘Beauty’ lasts about one tenth of a millionth of a millionth of a second before decaying.

2004 A. Watson Quantum Quark iv. 240 The quarks in question are the b or bottom quark, sometimes called the beauty quark.

Phrases

P1.

a. in (its, their, etc.) (great, high, etc.) beauty: in a state of beauty; at the height of beauty; spec. (of a plant) in bloom. Now archaic.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom

blownc1000

full-blown1576

flowering1592

in beauty1629

flowered1633

in bloom1645

new-blown1656

blooming1664

blowing1667

in flower1697

in (their) flowers1697

abloom1729

blow1744

aflower1869

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 120 The two first..flower the earliest.., and abide a great while in flower, in great beauty.

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian (new ed.) 195/2 It is in its beauty about June, and the Seed ripeneth shortly after.

1736 T. Sheridan Let. 12 May in Lett. Swift (1768) VI. cxx. 135 Our country is now in high beauty, and every inch of it walkable.

1786 G. White Jrnl. 17 Sept. (1970) xix. 282 My potted balsams..are still in beauty, tho' they have been blowing now more than three months.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. ix. 181 We have cards for her first party on the 28th.—Then she will be in beauty .

1828 R. Green Treat. Cultiv. Ornamental Flowers 52 If planted at the same time, [they] will succeed, and be in their beauty when the others are gone.

1878 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 10 Jan. 31/2 Our old friend Zygopetalum Mackayi, which has been in beauty for some five or six weeks past.

2011 C. Brooke Heiress in Love xxviii. 348 ‘Rosamund is in great beauty this evening,’ Lady Arden commented.

b. the beauty of their wildness: the shedding of a deer's antlers. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > shed horns > shedding of

decidence1615

the beauty of their wildness1632

1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 185 Forresters and Hunters doe call this yearely mewing of their [sc. stags'] heads, the beauty of their wildnesse.

c. beauty-in-the-ghost: spiritual (as opposed to bodily) beauty. rare.

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a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 92 Beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death Give beauty back..to God.

d. U.S. colloquial. the beauty part: the best, most appealing, or most satisfying aspect of something. Cf. sense 6b.

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1898 Washington Post 8 Feb. 6/7 Senator Pritchard is a great man, and the beauty part, he is equally kind and courteous.

1933 V. F. Nelson Prison Days & Nights ii. 22 But listen to this. Here's the beauty part. The very next guy that comes up before So-and-So is a guy that grabbed a hot car, a Buick or something.

1977 ‘W. Allen’ & M. Brickman Annie Hall in Four Films W. Allen (1982) 95 And you know what the beauty part is?.. We can always come back together again.

2009 New Yorker 24 Aug. 20/2 The beauty part is that no one can know what the delegates would come up with—which is why the idea has won such broad support.

e. colloquial (originally Australian, New Zealand, in later use also Scottish) you (little, wee, etc.) beauty: expressing triumph, pleasure, or approval. Cf. you beaut at beaut n., adj., adv., and int. Phrases, beauty int.

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1931 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, Austral.) 29 Sept. A man..jumped excitedly to his feet, shouted ‘you beauty’, and then dashed out of the theatre without waiting to explain whether he had drawn the first prize.

1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country (1937) 62 A tall fellow caught the ball..and dived over the line to score. The people clapped and roared, ‘You beauty, you little beauty!’

1978 R. Saw & I. Milbank Back to Back Tango 56 ‘Turn on the booze..and don't forget it's on the house.’ ‘You little bloody bewdy.’

1985 L. Lochhead tr. Molière Tartuffe 36 Fate's dealt me a trump card. Oh ya beauty!

1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 8 He bet on Charlie Sprout and won: ‘Yes, yah wee beauty!’

2010 J. Shepherd Mr Asia 238 There was sheer joy in my voice as I yelled out, ‘You beauty!’ when the zero number turned up.

f. England, home, and beauty: see England n. Phrases 2.

g. age before beauty: see age n. Phrases 6.

h. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: see area n. Phrases 1.

P2. Proverbs and proverbial sayings.

a. In various proverbs and proverbial sayings.

ΚΠ

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. l. 70 No worldli beute in erthe may alway laste.

a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 7637 For comonly hyt ys not seyn they be Herborured to-gedyr now in oo plase, Beawte and chastyte.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. 68^v Beautie and foly alway go togyther.

1601 T. Campion in P. Rosseter Bk. of Ayres i. xii. sig. E Thou shall proue, That beauty is no beautie without loue.

1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 55 Beauty without chastity, is like a Mandrake apple, comely in show, but poysonful in taste.

1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 35 Beauty is Potent; but Money is more Potent.

1840 Universalist Union 28 Mar. 300/1 The sage..maintained that in one and the same Man, Beauty and Wisdom seldom dwell together.

1896 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 466/2 The old adage that beauty draws smoke.

1904 N. Lorimer On Etna ix. 87 In the meantime would he live on love? for ‘beauty buys no beef’, as we say in England.

1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 26 Jan. 24 Beauty does open doors, while ugliness has them slammed in its face.

b. beauty is in the eye of the beholder: see beauty is in the eye of the beholder at eye n.¹ Phrases 1d(a)(iii).

c. beauty is only skin-deep: see skin-deep adj. 1a.

d. beauty draws more than oxen, beauty draws us with a single hair, and variants. Cf. one hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen at hair n. Additions. Now somewhat rare.

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a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C8^v Beauty drawes more then oxen.

1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 357 Fair Tresses Man's Imperial Race insnare, And Beauty draws us with a single Hair.

1837 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 528 If it be true that ‘Beauty draws us by a single hair,’ what must be the attraction, I thought, of a myriad mustered on my upper lip!

1884 J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida xiv. 180 Poor Jack! ‘Beauty draws us with a single hair,’ and here he was harnessed to each particular hair of the beauty's head, frizzes and all.

1898 Monist 8 269 As beauty draws more than oxen, so wit is a more effective weapon than the sword.

1941 ‘M. Coles’ They Tell no Tales xxii. 272 Beauty draws me with a single hair if it's blonde enough.

1945 R. L. Hine Confessions (ed. 2) 91 The old adage..that ‘beauty draws more than oxen.’

1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. [In the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata] heroes abound, their heroisms subtly differentiated; beauty draws men with a single hair; miraculous births and magic powers abound.

Compounds

C1.

(a) General use as a modifier.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [adjective]

Kevenhuller1746

Nazarene1788

beautya1889

stingy1965

1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin iii. 39 Par. But why to me this Beauty-reference? Merc. You, Sir, Jove knows,—can guess the difference—Betwixt—a Nymph—and a Nut-cracker.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 20 To nightly call Vesper, the beauty-crest of summer weather.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. x. 249 Young Apollo, with the beauty-bloom upon his chin!

1873 A. S. Stephens Bellehood & Bondage xxviii. 130 If she isn't too knowing, and don't put on beauty airs, perhaps it might do.

a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 180 Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear For a beauty-bow to his hat.

1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 210 People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

1994 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (rev. ed.) 255 Fear of limiting the power of the sex [sc. women] with the greater spending power, the greater beauty power, the greater sexual power, the greater net worth among its heads of households.

(b) With the sense ‘used for or relating to the beautification of the face, body, or hair’, as beauty cream, beauty powder; beauty regimen, beauty tip; beauty editor, beauty magazine, etc.

ΚΠ

1858 Morning Post 15 Sept. 1/3 (advt.) Récamier beauty powder..imparts freshness, softness, and velouté.

1888 Columbus Med. Jrnl. May 515 Of the numerous ‘face masks’, ‘beauty masks’, ‘complexion balms’,..not one is good in any respect.

1906 Advance 22 Mar. 364/3 A beauty magazine recommended corn-meal for taking out oil from hair.

1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies 36 Come here, Nancy, and put away the beauty cream.

1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 67 The beauty editor of the Star-Ledger appends several other recipes of a similarly homely nature.

1975 Jackie 15 Feb. 35/1 I read in a beauty article that you can brighten up dingy teeth by brushing them with peroxide.

1989 D. B. Feinberg Eighty-sixed (1990) x. 112 I lazed through Cosmopolitan for beauty tips.

1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 93/2 Aloe vera..is reputed to have played a part in Cleopatra's beauty routine.

2007 G. Garrett Beauty Secrets of Bible i. 1 The first step of any beauty regimen is cleansing.

b. Objective and instrumental, as in beauty-lover, beauty-worshipper, etc.; also beauty-beaming, beauty-blushing, beauty-clad, etc., adjectives.Chiefly poetic in early use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > stroke of pencil > skill

beauty1595

1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. C3^v (note) Thys beauty-clad naked Lady.

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. B 4 This beauty-blushing orient of his rise.

1618 Owles Almanacke 56 You Beauty-shadowers, that robbe the raine-bow of her colours.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 65 All the vary'd Hues Their Beauty-beaming Parent can disclose.

1813 Ld. Byron Genevra 10 When from his beauty-breathing pencil born..The Magdalen of Guido saw the morn.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 1/3 A family of beauty-worshippers, we may possibly have rushed a little into our friendship with her.

1928 W. B. Yeats Tower 62 The Great Mother, mourning for her daughter And beauty-drunken by the water.

1977 BioScience 27 421/3 Wing patterns and [butterfly] specimens from the world over, a joy to naturalists, scientists, and beauty lovers.

2003 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. i. 20/3 Great recipes..for beauty-boosting fruit smoothies and soups.

C2.

beautyberry n. any of various ornamental shrubs of the genus Callicarpa (family Lamiaceae), whose members bear clusters of brightly coloured berry-like fruits and are widespread in the tropics and subtropics; esp. (more fully American beautyberry) C. americana of North and Central America, which has bright purple fruits.

ΚΠ

1916 R. B. Cridland Pract. Landscape Gardening (ed. 2) xi. 243 (table) Callicarpa purpurea..Beauty Berry.

1957 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 24 July 4 Beautyberry has a small pink flower in summer, not striking in effect, yet more interesting than many other berried shrubs.

2009 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 2 May d8/2 Practically every other inquiry at our..nursery is about purple beautyberry.

beauty bush n. a hardy deciduous shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis (family Caprifoliaceae), native to central and eastern China and bearing tubular white to pink flowers and brown bristly fruits. [In quot. 1840 rendering a local name for Fuchsia denticulata, reported (as ‘Mollo-Ccantu , id est Planta formosa’) in H. Ruiz & J. Pavon Flora Peruviana (1802) III. 87; compare Quechua mulli (also molle , mollo , etc.) tree (specifically Peruvian mastic, Schinus molle: see molle n.²) and kantu bush with colourful tubular flowers, Cantua buxifolia.]

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1840 Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26 70 It is in this part of the world that the race of Fuchsias..developes those colours and forms which have gained for it among the Peruvians the name of Beauty-bush (Molle Ccantu).]

1927 National Nurseryman Mar. 79 (advt.) Kolkwitzia Amabilis, Beautybush... One of the most beautiful and rarest Arnold Arboretum introductions. A limited number offered to live nurserymen.

1931 E. I. Farrington Ernest H. Wilson: Plant Hunter ii. 23 Perhaps his favorite..was Kolkwitzia amabilis, which is a sort of glorified weigela, and to which the discoverer gave the common name of Beauty Bush.

2008 Independent 12 July (Mag.) 69/2 Kolkwitzia amabilis (beauty bush) has tiny foxglove flowers carried on upright, arching stems.

beauty contestant n. originally U.S. a person, typically a woman, who takes part in a beauty contest (beauty contest n. 1).

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1891 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 30 Dec. Miss Mattie Adams, a prize beauty contestant.

1965 Financial Times 3 Sept. 22/4 He impetuously marries an Italian beauty contestant.

2002 L. A. Jones Mama learned us to Work vi. 179 Two buxom beauty contestants grumbling that a homely, flat-chested, bespectacled woman had won the crown.

beauty culture n. originally and chiefly U.S. the art or practice of improving personal appearance through hairdressing, cosmetic treatments, etc. (now esp. as a profession).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > the art of cosmetics

cosmetic1605

cosmeticism1821

cosmetology1853

beauty culture1889

beauty therapy1924

1889 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Mar. 4/3 ‘Any woman who is not deformed can save herself from ugliness if she is not too indolent.’ ‘How?’ breathes the neophyte. ‘Simply by intelligent health and beauty culture.’

1911 W. A. Woodbury (title) Beauty Culture: A Practical Handbook on the Care of the Person.

2011 J. C. Smith Encycl. Afr. Amer. Pop. Culture 127 Howell served on the first New Jersey Board of Beauty Culture Control, which regulated beauty shops and beauty culture training for all salons.

beauty culturist n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who practises beauty culture (now esp. as a profession); a beautician.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally

woman surgeon1629

beauty doctor1888

beauty culturist1889

beauty specialist1890

beautician1924

cosmetician1926

cosmetologist1926

visagiste1958

beauty therapist1962

aesthetician1965

1889 Bucks County (Pa.) Gaz. 11 Apr. 2/2 The new school of beauty culturists declare that the woman who is not beautiful by the time she is 60 has thrown away her time.

1919 Honey Pot 1 iii. 40 Dr. Caissarate, that wonderful beauty culturist.

2012 J. E. Brown Afr. Amer. Women Chemists iii. 25 Her father John Goode was a clerk in the War Department and her mother was a beauty culturist and osteopath.

beauty doctor n. originally U.S. a beautician; (now also) a person who performs cosmetic surgery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally

woman surgeon1629

beauty doctor1888

beauty culturist1889

beauty specialist1890

beautician1924

cosmetician1926

cosmetologist1926

visagiste1958

beauty therapist1962

aesthetician1965

1888 Boston Daily Advertiser 20 July 1/2 There is a woman in New York who has a growing clientele of patients coming to her to be treated for ugliness... This ‘Beauty doctor’, as she is called, has effected some wonderful cures of plainness.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. ix. 444 A strange throng of hangers-on—manicures, beauty-doctors, hair-dressers.

2010 A. Edmonds Pretty Mod. i. 97 Cosmetic surgery has always been to some extent an experimental practice... The experimental attitude among early beauty doctors to an extent survives.

† beauty man n. Obsolete a beautiful man, esp. one who is effeminate; a fop, a dandy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy

popa1500

miniona1513

prick-me-daintya1529

puppy?1544

velvet-coat1549

skipjack1554

coxcomb1567

musk cat?1567

physbuttocke1570

Adonis?1571

Adon1590

foretop1597

musk-cod1600

pretty fellow1600

sparkc1600

spangle-baby1602

flash1605

barber-monger1608

cocoloch1610

dapperling1611

fantastica1613

feather-cock1612

trig1612

jack-a-dandy?1617

gimcrack1623

satinist1639

powder puffa1653

fop1676

prig1676

foplinga1681

cockcomb1684

beau garçona1687

shape1688

duke1699

nab1699

smirk1699

beau1700

petty master1706

moppet1707

Tom Astoner1707

dapper1709

petit maître1711

buck1725

toupee1727

toupet1728

toupet-man1748

jemmy1753

jessamy1753

macaroni1764

majoc1770

monkeyrony1773

dandyc1780

elegant1780

muscadin1794

incroyable1797

beauty man1800

bang-up1811

natty1818

ruffian1818

exquisite1819

heavy swell1819

marvellous1819

bit of stuff1828

merveilleux1830

fat1832

squirt1844

dandyling1846

ineffable1859

guinea pig1860

Dundreary swell1862

masher1872

dude1877

mash1879

dudette1883

dand1886

heavy gunner1890

posh1890

nut1904

smoothie1929

fancy-pants1930

saga boy1941

fancy Dan1943

1800 F. H. Carlisle Step-mother v. i. 68 And this beauty man!—I mean him no disparagement—I know He's brave, and courteous, highly skill'd in arms.

1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. ii. 181 The Beauty-man is, nine times out of ten, little more than the oracle of his aunts, and the ‘sitch a love’ of the housemaids.

1910 Strand Mag. Jan. 643/2 A modern woman..has no place in her heart for the scented exquisite, who waves his hair, twists his moustache, manicures his hands, and admires his face in the looking-glass... The woman of to-day scorns the ‘beauty man’.

† beauty-manner n. Obsolete a mode of behaviour or bearing typical of a beautiful woman.

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1881 M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls II. vii. 143 She seemed to have acquired a sort of supercilious beauty-manner which her sister did not recollect in her.

1919 E. M. Kelly Why Joan? xiv. 109 She also cultivated a beauty-manner, modeling herself on a certain Louisville belle whose manœuvers she had observed with interest.

beauty mark n. a small natural or artificial mark on the skin, esp. a mole or freckle on the face, which is considered to enhance a person's beauty; cf. beauty spot n. 2a.

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1848 H. Martineau Eastern Life (U.S. ed.) i. iv. 53 Two who came from Dongola have their faces curiously gashed with three cuts on each cheek... These cuts are given them by their parents in childhood, for beauty marks.

1849 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 11 July Her cheeks and forehead were spotted with beauty marks.

1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes ii. 60 A sharp beauty mark right at her sensual mouth.

1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xxxv. 231 Her makeup..began to drip. A tiny velvet beauty mark slid down her chin.

† beauty-mock n. Obsolete rare a woman whose beauty is not natural; a sham beauty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > imitation of

beauty-mock1608

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > an imitation > of beauty

beauty-mock1608

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 113 Achab's Stock, With his proud Queen (a painted Beautie-mock).

beauty pageant n. originally U.S. = beauty contest n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beauty contest

beauty show1856

beauty contest1880

beauty parade1887

beauty pageant1911

pageant1911

1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 9 Apr. (Special Cable News section) a5/2 (heading) Pick blondes for beauty pageant.

1928 W. Brooke Graves Readings in Public Opinion iv. 126 Was the annual beauty pageant at Atlantic City objectionable on moral grounds?

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 1 June 29 The Miss Europe beauty pageant has had contestants from Turkey, Israel and Lebanon.

beauty parlour n. originally U.S. = beauty salon n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification

beauty parlour1881

beauty shop1890

beauty salon1906

salon1913

nail bar1971

1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 27 Aug. 6/2 A bearded son of Adam..opened a ‘Beauty Parlor’ at ‘Congress Hall’ for the restoration of faded charms..but his balms did not act like charms on the faces of the disappointed females who paid him from ten to twenty dollars for their representation.

1908 Harper's Weekly 24 Oct. 22/1 The ‘beauty parlors’ of a large department store. There are a number of booths divided off by wooden partitions.

1988 M. Brooks Paradise Café & Other Stories 20 A lady with stiff beauty parlour hair.

2011 Maya News 16 Feb. 34/1 Get a pedicure appointment booked at a beauty parlour or do it yourself at home.

beauty patch n. now historical = patch n.¹ 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > adorning with patches > ornamental patches or spots

spot1578

patch1592

beauty spot1647

fly1658

mouche1676

gunpowder spot1681

powder-spot1683

beauty patch1691

mouchet1699

coquette patch1705

1691 G. Mackenzie Moral Hist. Frugality ii. 30 All the Paints and Beauty-Patches that Ladies can use.

1788 Morning Herald 30 Oct. Artificial teeth, eye-brows, queues, beauty patches, wigs, [etc.].

1843 D. W. Jerrold Story of Feather xii. in Punch 4 144/1 ‘A great deal,’ answered the Countess, pressing her little finger to a beauty patch which threatened to fall from her chin.

2001 B. Cornwell Sharpe’s Prey (2003) 45 He..had a frail, birdlike face on which, astonishingly, a black velvet beauty patch was glued.

beauty product n. any product, esp. a cream or lotion, intended to improve a person's appearance; frequently in plural.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > things used to beautify

cosmetic1650

equipage1716

monkey-trap1849

accessory1887

beauty product1909

1909 N.A.R.D. Notes (U.S. National Assoc. Retail Druggists) 4 Feb. 7/1 The new 1909 catalogue..devotes a full page..to Mrs. Gervaise Graham and her ‘beauty’ products.

1939 Times 25 Sept. 5/7 (advt.) Amami shampoos and other beauty products.

1994 This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Sept. 40/2 If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only have one beauty product, which one would you choose?

2004 R. Weitz Rapunzel's Daughters i. 17 For decades the only beauty products advertised in black periodicals were skin lighteners, wigs with straight hair, and hair straighteners.

† beauty-proof adj. Obsolete impervious to beauty; able to resist the charms of a beautiful woman; cf. woman-proof adj. at woman n. Compounds 2.

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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected

dead1340

unsmittenc1400

unmovedc1480

unkindleda1525

senseless1560

lumpish1585

unfired1590

unaffectedc1595

incapable1601

unsensible1611

insensible1615

untouched1616

impervious1618

unanswering1632

untransported1641

beauty-proof1676

insensate1726

unsusceptible1734

uninfluenced1735

unimbued1813

unsmote1814

unsusceptive1825

unalive1828

echoless1869

non-conducting1871

unsusceptible1872

irresponsive1886

affectless1912

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > Philistine

unseasoned1598

Gothish1602

Gothic1695

Vandal1752

beauty-proof1753

bourgeois1764

Philistine1831

palateless1860

philistinic1869

Philistinish1871

Babbitty1925

1676 T. Otway Don Carlos iii. 28 Unconstant Wav'ring heart why heav'st thou so?.. I who e're now have Armies led to fight..now am not Beauty proof.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xiv. 103 Beauty shall not bribe me on your side... I am Beauty-proof.

1827 Ant: Orig. Dept. 24 Feb. 53 What! do you fancy all mankind are blind, Or beauty-proof, that they may, quiet, endure The liquid sweetness of your speaking eye!

1914 Irish Monthly Nov. 632 Love songs go to the head like strong wine. A man should not sing them to fair ladies unless his heart and brain are beauty-proof.

beauty salon n. an establishment which provides professional services to improve the appearance of the face, body, or hair; cf. salon n. 4.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification

beauty parlour1881

beauty shop1890

beauty salon1906

salon1913

nail bar1971

1906 Daily Mail 8 Feb. 9/5 The next lotion is a spray redolent of spices, compounded from tinctures that tone up and brighten the skin, so that the patient may not depart from the beauty salon into the open air with pores weakened by the hot steam bath.

1975 Chem. Week 26 Mar. 37/1 Beauty salon hair dressers and cosmeticians expect women to go in for fancier coiffures.

2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 159/4 Help! I don't know what to do about my bikini line. I know you shouldn't shave down there, but I'm too shy to go to a beauty salon.

beauty shop n. originally U.S. (a) a place where beauty products are prepared or sold; (b) = beauty salon n.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification

beauty parlour1881

beauty shop1890

beauty salon1906

salon1913

nail bar1971

1890 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 18 May 4/5 Instead of going to the beauty shop for toilet lore, the beautifier comes to the school and gives a class or private lesson in face washes.

1901 Current Lit. Apr. 446/2 The Oldest Beauty-Shop... The perfumery of Santa Maria Novella was first made in 1508 by the Dominican Brotherhood.

1969 B. Knox Tallyman vii. 132 Janey Milton..on her way to have her hair set at a local beauty shop.

2012 Sun (Nexis) 18 Mar. 28 We're a one-stop beauty shop because we do everything from hair and beauty to Botox and fillers.

beauty show n. = beauty parade n. 1.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beauty contest

beauty show1856

beauty contest1880

beauty parade1887

beauty pageant1911

pageant1911

1856 C. Bede Shilling Bk. of Beauty 81 Ev'ry class was represented in ‘the Beauty Show’.

1907 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 Sept. (1941) 37 You would make me a curtain-raiser for a beauty show.

2000 Times 28 Sept. (T2 section) 35/2 Beauty show contestants are warned to hug their neighbour in the line-up if her name is called out by the judges.

beauty sleep n. colloquial (now chiefly humorous) (frequently with possessive) sleep considered necessary to keep a person looking beautiful; extra sleep; (also) any sleep. In early use referring to sleep taken before midnight.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > at specific time

night sleepOE

beauty sleep1828

1828 C. White Herbert Milton III. ii. 69 It [sc. a party] was attended principally by married women, who, if they had daughters out, generally took this opportunity of sending them to seek beauty sleep in bed before ten o'clock.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. xv. 148 A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep’.

1959 M. Spark Memento Mori x. 145 You must get your beauty sleep for the photographer tomorrow.

2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 141 Sorry to disturb your beauty sleep.

beauty specialist n. a specialist in beauty treatment; a beautician.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally

woman surgeon1629

beauty doctor1888

beauty culturist1889

beauty specialist1890

beautician1924

cosmetician1926

cosmetologist1926

visagiste1958

beauty therapist1962

aesthetician1965

1890 Yorks. Herald 16 Aug. 5/4 Professor Thurrow, the American Beauty Specialist, in to-day addressing the Ladies of York advises them..to send P.O. for 2s. for his wonderful recipe for removing hairs from the neck and face.

1938 N. Marsh Death in White Tie xxix. 305 Mrs. Halcut-Hackett..looking like a beauty-specialist's mistake.

2011 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 14 July (Features section) 44 The level 3 diploma in spa therapy is aimed at experienced beauty specialists.

beauty therapist n. a person who provides beauty therapy; a beautician.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally

woman surgeon1629

beauty doctor1888

beauty culturist1889

beauty specialist1890

beautician1924

cosmetician1926

cosmetologist1926

visagiste1958

beauty therapist1962

aesthetician1965

1962 Times 21 July 1/3 State registered nurse..required..by West End beauty therapist for training..in electrolysis and beauty therapy.

1988 R. Tisserand Aromatherapy for Everyone (1990) i. 2 The use of aromatherapy oils, often ready-blended, by beauty therapists.

2006 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) July 109 Ice has been traditionally used by beauty therapists to numb the pain of waxing.

beauty therapy n. (the provision of) various treatments aimed at improving a person's appearance or well-being; (also) an instance of this, a beauty treatment.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > the art of cosmetics

cosmetic1605

cosmeticism1821

cosmetology1853

beauty culture1889

beauty therapy1924

1924 Helena (Montana) Independent 4 Dec. 4/3 The time is just about ripe for them [sc. beauty culturists] to make beauty therapy imply a certain definite degree of skill.

1978 A. Gallant Body Treatm. & Dietetics for Beauty Therapist v. 222 The following routine of strokes should provide a good base for massage work in the beauty therapy field.

1990 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 131 Lunch, dinner, golf and beauty therapies are extra.

2004 Nat. Health Nov. 49/2 The spectrum of cosmetic treatments that start with standard beauty therapy and progress through medical treatments.

beauty treatment n. the use of facials, manicures, etc., to improve personal appearance; (also) an instance of this, a session with a beautician.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > treatments

complexioning1656

beauty treatment1882

facial1910

1882 S. E. Morrill Treat. of Pract. Instr. in Med. & Surg. Uses of Elec. x. 73 This is the way we give what we call beauty treatment, by rubbing the face with the cloth charged with electricity.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxxiii. 282 Beauty treatment is never cheap.

1977 Occup. Outlook College Graduates (U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics) 17/1 Men and women who assist professional nurses in hospitals, give haircuts and beauty treatments, [etc.].

1999 C. Dolan Ascension Day (2000) vi. 106 Right. That's you booked in for the full beauty treatment and manicure, madam.

† beauty-waning adj. poetic Obsolete becoming, or causing to become, less beautiful.

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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > waning in beauty

fade1303

beauty-waning1597

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 175 A beauty-waining and distressed widow.

1887 R. J. Flanagan Australian & Other Poems 72 Methought how hard that e'er that witching maze Of charms into the beauty-waning tide Of age should float.

beauty wash n. a liquid cosmetic used to cleanse or beautify the skin.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids

waterOE

maiden milk?a1425

May-dew?a1425

milk of almondsa1425

maidens' milk?c1450

lac Virginis1477

surflingc1555

surfle1593

virgin's milk1600

lotion1606

washa1627

beauty water1675

mercury-water1676

beauty wash1706

Kalydor1824

skin tonic1863

flower-water1886

Limacol1936

moisture lotion1957

toning lotion1960

toner1970

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. ii. 23 This small Venetian Bottle, So prim, so pretty, and so little, Contains a Beauty-Wash, not common, The best that e'er was us'd by a Woman.

1854 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 451/1 The water thus collected, is deemed by rustics a cure for warts on the hands—a beauty-wash for the face; for which reason the French call it ‘Venus's Tub’.

1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 5 Aug. 42 Take your pick from the beauty fluid, £2.99, foaming beauty wash, £2.79, and replenishing cream, £5.29.

beauty water n. now historical a liquid preparation that is applied to the skin, esp. on the face, for cleansing or cosmetic purposes; a beauty wash.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids

waterOE

maiden milk?a1425

May-dew?a1425

milk of almondsa1425

maidens' milk?c1450

lac Virginis1477

surflingc1555

surfle1593

virgin's milk1600

lotion1606

washa1627

beauty water1675

mercury-water1676

beauty wash1706

Kalydor1824

skin tonic1863

flower-water1886

Limacol1936

moisture lotion1957

toning lotion1960

toner1970

1675 Accomplish'd Lady's Delight 195 (heading) An Excellent Beauty-water, used by the D. of C.

1738 Reveur (Edinb.) 3 Feb. She complained to me Yesterday of a Wrinkle she had contracted..and beg'd a Vial of my Beauty-water.

1840 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 29 Feb. (advt.) Ladies' beauty water, or true eau de beaute... This chemical preparation..as a wash for perfuming, cleansing, and preserving the skin has no equal.

2008 I. C. Fabretti in J. Condra Greenwood Encycl. Clothing World Hist. II. 35 Sforza also concocted several different ‘beauty waters’ to brighten the complexion and remove freckles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	beauty
释义	beautyn. Brit. /ˈbjuːti/, U.S. /ˈbjudi/ Forms: Middle English bealte, Middle English beaultee, Middle English beuaute, Middle English bewete, Middle English bewtee, Middle English bieute, Middle English bovtte, Middle English buute, Middle English–1500s beaulte, Middle English–1500s beaultye, Middle English–1500s beautee, Middle English–1500s beawte, Middle English–1500s bewetye, Middle English–1600s beaute, Middle English–1600s beute, Middle English–1600s bewte, Middle English–1600s bewtie, Middle English–1600s bewty, Middle English–1700s beautie, 1500s beaultie, 1500s beaulty, 1500s beavte, 1500s beawtye, 1500s bewetie, 1500s bewety, 1500s bewghtie, 1500s bewti, 1500s–1600s beautye, 1500s–1600s beawtie, 1500s–1600s beawty, 1500s–1600s beutye, 1500s–1600s bewtye, 1500s–1700s beutie, 1500s–1700s beuty, 1500s– beauty, 1600s beawtte, 1600s butey, 1600s butye, 1800s– booty (English regional (Cheshire)), 1800s– byooty (regional and nonstandard), 1900s– byootie (regional and nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 beaulte, pre-1700 beaute, pre-1700 beautee, pre-1700 beawte, pre-1700 beawtie, pre-1700 beawtye, pre-1700 beute, pre-1700 beutie, pre-1700 beutye, pre-1700 bewte, pre-1700 bewtee, pre-1700 bewtie, pre-1700 bewty, pre-1700 bewtye, pre-1700 1700s beautie, pre-1700 1700s– beauty; (in sense 5d) 1900s– beaudy (Australian and New Zealand), 1900s– beauteeee (New Zealand), 1900s– beeyutay (New Zealand), 1900s– bewdy (Australian and New Zealand). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French beauté. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman beawté, beuté, bewté, Anglo-Norman and Old French bealté, Anglo-Norman and Middle French beauté, Old French, Middle French biauté, Middle French beaulté, beautié (French beauté ) quality of being beautiful, highly pleasing, or attractive (c1100 in Old French as beltet ; late 14th cent. as a personification), beautiful thing (13th cent.), beautiful person, (especially) beautiful woman (second half of the 13th cent.) < bel (see beau adj.) + -tet -ty suffix¹.Compare Old Occitan beltat , beutat (first quarter of the 12th cent.; > Catalan beutat (late 13th cent.), Spanish beldad (mid 13th cent.; c1215 as †beltat , †beltad ), Italian beltà (12th cent.)). The usual words for ‘beauty’ in Spanish and Italian are belleza (late 14th cent.; < bello beautiful (see beau adj. and n.) + -eza -ess suffix²) and bellezza (a1250; < bello beautiful (see beau adj. and n.) + -ezza -ess suffix²) respectively; compare Catalan bellesa (13th cent.). In French, the word showed development of a triphthong (resulting from vocalization of l) which subsequently developed to a diphthong and finally a monophthong /oː/. In late Middle English the word showed the diphthong eu, with open e as first element, and showed the regular development of this sound in modern English, ultimately giving /juː/. On the (difficult) evidence from early modern English orthoepists and rhymes in poetry, see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §244. I. Abstract senses. 1. a. That quality of a person (esp. a woman) which is highly pleasing to the sight; perceived physical perfection; attractive harmony of features, figure, or complexion; exceptional grace, elegance, or charm in appearance. See note at beautiful adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > specifically of humans fairnessOE beautya1350 looksc1400 pertnessc1450 well-favouredness1545 thews1567 good looks1591 bonniness1603 good-lookingness1828 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 50 Heo is cristal of clannesse, ant baner of bealte. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4074 A worschipful lady, þat burde was of beuaute briȝtest in erþe. a1475 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 232 All owre pryd, Owre Iollytte and fayre bovtte. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. miij^v/2 Samblant to..Absalon in beaulte. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 244 None coulde passe hym in beaute. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 94 Bewties ensigne yet Is crymson in thy lips. 1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 46 Neither could I receive a Princesse more splendant in Beauty, and all good Graces. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 212 A Man, or Child of never so great beauty. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 97. ⁋2 Her beauty was natural and easy. 1793 S. Burrell Poems II. 125 Think thou hast Plebian face, Little beauty, little grace. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 25 There..sat,..All beauty compass'd in a female form, The Princess. 1872 Lakeside Monthly Dec. 433/2 Few could excel her in beauty. 1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth xxx. 327 But across the lad's forehead and almost a mar to his beauty were his two black brows, too heavy and black for his young, pale face. 1964 E. Baker Fine Madness xxii. 257 When it came to beauty, she was everything he'd ever dreamed of. 2001 D. Rhodes Don't tell me Truth about Love 63 He had stood watching for a long time, utterly ensnared by her rare beauty. b. That quality of a person or thing which is highly pleasing or satisfying to the mind; moral or intellectual excellence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > pleasing fitness > [noun] beautyc1390 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] goodnessOE mund?c1250 daintethc1290 bountyc1300 daintyc1300 excellencec1384 virtuea1393 excellency?a1400 nobilitya1400 meritc1425 singularity?c1450 fineness1523 admirationa1533 rareness1545 rightness1561 rariety1566 rarity1566 excellentness1569 beautya1586 admirableness1607 primeness1611 gallantry1650 eximiety1656 optimity1656 altesse1660 unexceptionableness1669 excellingness1701 quality1803 sterlingness1815 stupendosity1828 goodliness1832 superbness1832 unexceptionability1837 sweetness and light1867 class1884 rortiness1885 rippingness1903 superstardom1928 motherfucker1977 awesomeness1998 c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 275 (MED) Monnes soule..he maad hit of Beute To his liknesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14115 Of all thing scho [sc. Mary] tok till ane, widvten quam es buute [Vesp. beute] nane. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. S7^v This noble-man..had bene so mind-striken by the beautie of vertue in that noble King. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 17 Beautie is defined by Plato the Fulgor, i.e. Lustre of Good. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 212. ⁋3 The greatest beauty of speech [is] to be close and intelligible. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 92. ⁋1 Without incongruity and absurdity we cannot speak of geometrical beauty. 1812 Eclectic Rev. July 675 The superior beauty of the plan Mr. H. recommends..is unquestionable. 1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 254 We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end. 1953 Jet 28 May 27 Marital happiness depends on a woman's inner beauty—her personality and character—rather than her outer glamour. 2006 P. J. Nahin Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula Pref. p.xx The gold standard for mathematical beauty is..Euler's formula. c. That quality of a physical object or animal which is highly pleasing to the sight; perceived physical perfection; exceptional harmony of form or colour. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] wlitec825 faireOE fairnessOE fairlecc1225 fairheadc1300 fairshipc1300 forma1382 clearnessa1400 beautyc1405 delicacya1450 pulchritudea1460 speciositya1470 lovelinessa1500 beautifulnessc1500 formosityc1500 fairhood?1503 bewtynes?c1510 decorea1513 venusty1559 decorum1604 bellitude1623 beauteousnessa1631 loveliheada1637 decor1656 luculency1656 Venus1657 coquetry1794 beautyhood1832 glamour1840 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §258 The beautee of the fruyt deffended. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7857 Þare es bryghtnes and bewte Of alle thing þat men salle þare se. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxviii. f. lxxiiij^v The wonderful beaute of these forsaid creatures. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 412 The rychesse and beaulty of that chaumbre can not be dyscryuyd. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 66 The stately seat of Kenelwoorth Castl, the rare beauty of bylding that hiz honor hath auaunced. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xii. 429 As for fowles, they haue abundance of Parrots and Noyras, more pleasing in beautie, speech and other delights then the Parrot. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 171 The shadowed beauty of the ripened grapes. 1717 A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxxiv. 154 He came to the Play-Table, where drawing a Card, they admired the Beauty of his Ring. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 192. ⁋5 Describing the beauty of his brother's seat. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 4 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. 1882 Garden 28 Oct. 381/2 The Chinese Crab..[is] a tree unsurpassed in beauty by any of the class. 1938 Life 6 June 75/1 (advt.) Ordinary window glass can never match the brilliant beauty of Plate glass. 1968 Lapidary Jrnl. Sept. 736 The authors feel that this is going to be an important gemstone because of its exceptional beauty. 2009 Independent 17 Nov. 31/5 Such is the breathtaking beauty of the autumn foliage, people make special trips to gaze open-mouthed on the leaves turning russet and crimson. d. That quality of a thing which is highly pleasing to the senses generally. ΚΠ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 255 To speke and write tho wordis in sum gaynes and bewte. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 56 The dialecte of oure tonge, whiche withe beawtye vsethe suche transmutacione. 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 182 Shakes, passages, and diminutions, wherein the beauty of a song or piece of music greatly consists. 1820 Edinb. Rev. May 371 Such an effect had the beauty of the melody upon their savage minds, that they relented. 1832 New Eng. Mag. July 15 The sombre beauty of evening, with its deep stillness broken only by the low moanings of affliction. 1914 Mountaineer 7 26 We had rain again that night, but only a light shower which cleared into a morning of radiant beauty. a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) i. xiv. 49 That trumpet call had an almost liquid beauty. 2010 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 22/3 The Russian soprano..sang Mimi with great warmth and beauty of tone. †e. In predicative use with non-referential it as subject and to-infinitive clause as complement, corresponding to a predicative use of beautiful adj. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] lustc888 lustfulnessa900 queemnesseOE mirtheOE estec1000 winOE queemc1175 sweetness?c1225 solace1297 dutea1300 lustinga1300 joyingc1300 jollityc1330 lustiheadc1369 lustinessc1374 sweet1377 voluptyc1380 well-pleasinga1382 pleasancec1385 pleasurea1393 volupta1398 easementc1400 pleasingc1400 complacencec1436 pleasec1475 satisfaction1477 likancea1500 oblectation1508 beauty1523 aggradation1533 pleasurancec1540 joc1560 likement1577 contentment1587 beloving1589 gratification1598 savouriness1599 entertain1601 pleasedness1626 well-apaidness1633 well-pleasedness1633 pleasingness1649 complacency1652 adlubescence1656 enjoyment1665 volupe1669 musica1674 pleasantry1740 barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xli. 57 It was a great beauty [Fr. c'estoit grant beauté] to beholde the baners and standerdes wauyng. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxliv. 172 Hit was great beautie [Fr. estoit grant beauté] to beholde their puyssant array. 2. As an abstract quality (sometimes personified, esp. in early use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > personified beautyc1405 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1068 In the temple of Venus maystow se..Beautee [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 beute] and youthe, baudrye, richesse. a1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer Complaint unto Pity (Tanner) (1871) l. 70 Cruelte..hath depryued you of youre place That is hye beaute apertenaunt to your grace. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis f. E.iv.^v Beauty hir self semed but vgly in his sighte, in comparison of the rosed cheekes of his lady. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 56 Who have so leaden eyes, as not to see sweete Beauties showe. a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 84 Fair Beutye now hes lost hir lampe. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 533 The charm of Beauties powerful glance. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 135 Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §7. 95 Beauty is, for the greater part, some merely sensible quality, acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses. 1820 J. Keats Ode on Grecian Urn in Lamia & Other Poems 116 ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 91 Beauty is perfection unmodified by a predominating expression. 1899 Mind 8 530 In like manner one might throw doubt on the possibility of absolute truth.., or absolute beauty, or any other kind of absolute. 1950 W. J. Bate in H. Levin Perspectives of Crit. 137 As distinct from truth or the good, therefore, beauty is a means rather than an end. 1995 Economist 5 Aug. 90/3 A belief in art for art's sake and that beauty is all. †3. The prevailing standard of what is beautiful; the fashion. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion gentryc1400 the fashion1569 mainstream1599 the trim1603 mood1646 mode1649 vogue1649 beauty1653 à la mode1654 turn1695 the kick1699 goût1717 thing1734 taste1739 ton1769 nick1788 the tippy1790 twig1811 latest1814 dernier mot1834 ticket1838 kibosh1880 last cry1887 le (or the) dernier cri1896 flavour of the month (or week)1946 vague1962 1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. xviii. 242 She stain'd her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. II. Concrete and extended senses. 4. a. A beautiful person, esp. an attractive woman. bathing, court, postcard, professional, screen, sleeping, society beauty, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person lovesomea1350 popinjaya1350 beautya1413 angel1502 good-looker1801 crusher1841 looker1893 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 346 Wo worth þat beaute þat is rouþelees. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cclxxiii/2 I haue loued the ouer late, thou beaulte. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xv. sig. K2^v These young companions make themselues beleeue they love at the first liking of a likely beautie. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 99 The beautious scarfe vailing an Indian beauty . View more context for this quotation 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. H What fouler obiect in the world, then to see a young faire, handsome beauty, vnhandsomely dighted and incongruently accoutred. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 37. ¶4 Leonora was formerly a celebrated Beauty, and is still a very lovely Woman. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 99 Oh, he was such a beauty! 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. ii. 57 He was to be introduced to some of the most fashionable beauties. 1880 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 76/1 A blonde beauty, of the delicate, porcelain-tinted type. 1914 Earl Beatty Let. 16 Feb. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. (1951) vi. 127 There were some funny old trouts and some spritely young ones, but no raving beauties. 1974 K. Amis Ending Up vii. 44 She was a great beauty in the Twenties. 2003 N.Y. Times 4 May ii. 10/2 Dr. Wilson turned out to be a leggy beauty with a cloud of blond hair. †b. As a mass noun: beautiful people, esp. women, collectively. Chiefly with the. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > collectively beauty1611 beautydom1867 beautyhood1889 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. i. 19 The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places. View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 54 There will be The Beauty of this Kingdome. View more context for this quotation 1761 E. Thompson Meretriciad 5 What don't our Ladies owe to Pompadore? She gives the ugly charms, the beauty more. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry. 1913 Smart Set Feb. 3/1 All the beauty of America was there [sc. at the ball]. c. colloquial (originally U.S., later chiefly Australian and New Zealand) An admirable or excellent person (without reference to physical beauty). Also ironic. Cf. beaut n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person gemc1275 blooma1300 excellence1447 mirrorc1450 man of mena1470 treasure?1545 paragon1548 shining light1563 Apollo's swan?1592 man of wax1597 rara avis1607 Titan1611 choice spirita1616 excellency1725 inestimable1728 inimitable1751 cock of the walk1781 surpasser1805 shiner1810 swell1816 trump1819 tip-topper1822 star1829 beauty1832 soarer1895 trumph1895 pansy1899 Renaissance man1906 exemplum virtutis1914 museum piece1920 superman1925 flyer1930 pistol1935 all-star1949 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xiv. 121 Hold your tongue, you beauty, or you shall smell brimstone through a nail hole. 1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett 144 Stranger, you are a beauty: and if I know'd your name I'd vote for you next election. 1893 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 453 Oh, Tom, my boy! you're a sharp un, you are! Oh, you beauty! 1924 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 72 My brother..said I was a beauty to go eeling with. 1930 Advertiser (Adelaide) 21 May 17/6 A fine pair of beauties you and McCormack are to sit in judgment on me! 1969 C. Bray Blossom like Rose 193 You drove like a beauty. 2012 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Sept. 86 My mum and dad are just bloody beauties. They've got a great work ethic and I couldn't have any better role models growing up. d. Beauty and the Beast: a beautiful woman and a man considered to be less attractive forming an ill-matched couple. [After Beauty and the Beast, the title of a fairy tale first published in English in 1811 (attributed to Charles and Mary Ann Lamb), in which Beauty saves her father's life by agreeing to live with the Beast; the tale is probably derived from G. F. Straparola Le Piacevoli Notti (1550) where it is untitled, but the standard English title is probably a translation of the French La Belle et la Bête.] ΚΠ 1740 La jeune amériquaine et les contes marins I. 51 (title) La belle et la bête. 1781 tr. Comtesse de Genlis Theatre of Educ. I. 31 (title of play) The beauty and the monster. 1811 (title) Beauty and the Beast; or, a Rough outside with a gentle heart.] 1865 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. vii, in Fortn. Rev. 1 July 403 It's a pity he shouldn't be a lover of yours..it would be such a fine instance of Beauty and the Beast. 1892 I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 63 Beauty and the Beast made a rare couple under the wedding canopy. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 353 Pretty girls and ugly men marrying. Beauty and the beast. 1998 Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 27 July On screen was the beauty-and-the-beast pairing of Paul and the lovely Sue Hanson as ‘Miss Diane’ that captivated audiences. 5. a. A beautiful thing, place, or animal. Also in weakened use: something that is pleasing or useful. black beauty: see black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person fairnesseOE roseOE beautya1425 beauteous1435 lovelyc1450 beautifulness?1574 picturea1645 formosity1652 speciosity1660 vision1823 dream1837 jewel box1846 firecracker1852 beaut1896 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful thing beautya1425 utility?1483 card?1562 usefuls1649 utile1685 practicality1845 a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 8 And in grete bewtes haue I bene And fosterd furth full tendirly. 1687 G. L. Gentleman's New Jockey i. xii. 37 Then for the Crest, let it be high, strong, and somewhat thin; his Mane somewhat curling, thin, long and soft. These are not only signs of a good Horse, but a Beauty also. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty i. 14 When a vessel sails well, the sailors always call her a beauty. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xii. 185 There she blows! Oh, she's a beauty!..a hundred-barreler! 1897 I. Scott How I stole over 10,000 Sheep iii. 11 Our own dogs..turned out to be ‘beauties’. 1915 J. Turner Let. 3 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 11 I have told you of the splendid parcel I got..: I have had another from Mary R., equally a beauty. 1937 C. Paddleford in N.Y. Herald Tribune 2 Apr. 17/1 New pitted prunes are on the market. They are beauties, in shape, color and flavor. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. xlviii. 588 This one was a beauty, a car someone had worked on for years, put thousands of dollars into. 2005 Olive July 55 Having at least one chocolate recipe up your sleeve will sort any pudding dilemmas and these little beauties will never fail you. b. In plural. In or with reference to the titles of anthologies or collections: the choice passages from a particular writer, genre, etc.; (also) the most beautiful examples of works of art. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > collection > choice beauties?1720 ?1720 J. F. de la Fond (title) The beauties of the language of princes. 1737 (title) The Beauties of the English Stage, consisting of all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions and other poetical beauties in the English plays. 1767 (title) The beauties of English poesy. Selected by Oliver Goldsmith. 1786 (title) The beauties of the British Senate, taken from the debates of the Lords and Commons. 1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1895) II. 720 ‘Beauties’ in general are objectionable works. 1860 Athenæum 31 Mar. 442/1 It might have been fancied that the days of ‘Beauties’, ‘Gems’, ‘Anthologies’ were over. 1865 (title) Beauties of Poetry and Art. 1915 J. Turner Let. July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 17 We talked of the beauties of [the poet] Francis Thom[p]son (about whom he has written). 1931 T. P. Cross (title) Harper & bard; the beauties of Irish literature. c. With distinguishing word: any of various animals (esp. moths) and plants considered to be particularly pleasing or attractive in appearance. Cf. beautiful adj. 4.American, meadow, mountain, pine-barren, rock, spring beauty: see the first element. ΚΠ 1742 B. Wilkes Twelve New Designs Eng. Butterflies Pl. 11 (caption) The Brindle Beauty Moth. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 104 The Oak Beauty (Biston prodromarius, Leach). The Brindled Beauty (Biston hirtarius, Leach). 1870 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers 307 Rhexia virginica.—Meadow Beauty. 1916 W. A. Hilton in Jrnl. Entomol. & Zool. 8 106 Painted beauty or Hunter's butterfly, Vanessa huntera. 1961 Adv. Genetics 11 175 The black form of Cleora repandata, the mottled beauty, is more hardy than the pale one during the immature stages. 2011 D. Alderton Aquarium & Pond Fish 252 The Coral Beauty varies throughout its range, with stunning shades of blue and green as well as rich yellow hues all being evident. d. colloquial. An exceptionally good, impressive, or (ironically) egregious example of something. Also in a beauty of a —. Cf. beaut n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing starOE dainty1340 daisyc1485 say-piece1535 bravery1583 paragon1585 daint1633 rapper1653 supernaculum1704 dandy1785 roarer1813 sneezer1823 plum1825 trimmer1827 sockdolager1838 rasper1844 dinger1861 job1863 fizzer1866 champagne1880 beauty1882 pie1884 twanger1889 smasher1894 crackerjack1895 Taj Mahal1895 beaut1896 pearler1901 lollapalooza1904 bearcat1909 beaner1911 grande dame1915 Rolls-Royce1916 the nuts1917 pipperoo1939 rubydazzler1941 rumpty1941 rumptydooler1941 snodger1941 sockeroo1942 sweetheart1942 zinger1955 blue-chipper1957 ring-a-ding1959 premier cru1965 sharpie1970 stormer1978 1882 C. F. Pardon Australians in Eng. 46 Spofforth was bowled by a ‘beauty’ from Mycroft. 1894 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 May 285/2 The caddie tee'd the ball, and I made my drive; a beauty, though I say it—clean, hard, and straight. 1913 Amer. Mag. July 39/3 This time he was so mad he hit Squint without further words. They had a beauty of a fight. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror viii. 147 She..swung her right and plugged Slingsby a perfect beauty in the eye. 1951 Evening Post 13 Jan. The Postmaster reported that an earthquake had occurred..and was a ‘beauty’. 1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Aug. e11 Speaking of gaffes by airline personnel, I witnessed a beauty last month. 2007 M. R. Kohut Compl. Guide Bullies & Bullying vii. 138 When Sheriff T. remarks on Opie's black eye, Opie cheerfully responds, ‘I know, ain't it a beauty?’ 6. a. A beautiful feature or trait; (also) an embellishment or decoration. Usually in plural, and frequently with of or possessive. Also in beauties of nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > qualities constituting beautya1425 beautiful1561 pulchritude1625 fair1633 a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 902 (MED) Þare es no man olive Þat kowth hir bewtese wele descrive. 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Diii The which is a beautie vnto the whole Coronix. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 88^v The Peare..chalengeth the next place, and is one of the cheefest beauties of the Orcharde. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cx. 3 In the beauties of holinesse. View more context for this quotation 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 10 Or the Episodical Ornaments, such as Descriptions, Narrations, and other Beauties, which are not essential to the Play. 1731 J. Wesley Let. 14 Aug. (1931) I. 105 Those beauties of nature that so easily raise our thoughts to the Author of them. 1783 R. Heber Let. 29 Apr. in Heber Lett. (1950) i. 18 I don't think him an ugly boy, yet I cannot as yet descry the number of beauties his Mama sees in him. 1816 G. G. Graham Acct. of First Edinb. Music Festival 110 The profusion of extraordinary beauties to be found in this Symphony Mozart K. 543. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §1. 1 Guided by a friend who knew the country, I became acquainted with its chief beauties. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People ii. 16 The famous wood sculpture of the Yoruba could not possibly have fallen into an area less responsive to its beauties than colonial America. 1997 Independent 9 Apr. Suppl. 23/1 The rugged beauties of nature proved too much for at least three of our land-lubberly sightseers. 2005 Period Living & Trad. Homes Apr. 15/2 Create a peaceful place to relax and enjoy the beauties of the spring garden. b. With of or possessive. A pleasing or useful aspect of a thing; a merit, a good point. Frequently in the beauty of: the best aspect or advantage of. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > such as to please one [phrase] > that affords special pleasure the beauty of1753 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 159 That's the beauty of it; to offend and make up at pleasure. 1815 Acad. Recreations Mar. 64 One of its [sc. the Greek language's] beauties is that the number of original and primitive words is comparatively small. This affords the Student one of his chief amusements, viz. digging for Greek roots. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 630 The one beauty of the resolution is its inconsistency. 1874 W. M. Baines Narr. Edward Crewe 104 The beauty of paddling is that any one of the crew can ‘take a spell’ without throwing the rest much out. 1921 Factory Aug. 182/3 A beauty of the plan is that it can be made just as applicable to the industries of any town or city. 1939 Life 17 July 35 (advt.) Nothing in there to wear or cause noise... That's the beauty of it. This tiny gas flame takes the place of moving parts in the freezing system. 1990 Micro Decision Feb. 101/2 One of the beauties of such a set-up is that reports are date-sensitive. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 356 The beauty of whittling as a craft is that it can be done by anyone with a small piece of wood and a knife. 7. Particle Physics. [An arbitrary choice of name.] = bottom n. 29. Cf. truth n. 13. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > differentiating property > bottom bottom1975 beauty1977 b1978 bottomness1979 1977 Sci. News 13 Aug. 100/1 The last two [quarks] have been designated rather whimsically ‘truth’ and ‘beauty’ although in a recent statement Lederman names them more prosaically ‘top’ and ‘bottom’. 1985 Daily Tel. 7 May 18 ‘Beauty’ lasts about one tenth of a millionth of a millionth of a second before decaying. 2004 A. Watson Quantum Quark iv. 240 The quarks in question are the b or bottom quark, sometimes called the beauty quark. Phrases P1. a. in (its, their, etc.) (great, high, etc.) beauty: in a state of beauty; at the height of beauty; spec. (of a plant) in bloom. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom blownc1000 full-blown1576 flowering1592 in beauty1629 flowered1633 in bloom1645 new-blown1656 blooming1664 blowing1667 in flower1697 in (their) flowers1697 abloom1729 blow1744 aflower1869 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 120 The two first..flower the earliest.., and abide a great while in flower, in great beauty. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian (new ed.) 195/2 It is in its beauty about June, and the Seed ripeneth shortly after. 1736 T. Sheridan Let. 12 May in Lett. Swift (1768) VI. cxx. 135 Our country is now in high beauty, and every inch of it walkable. 1786 G. White Jrnl. 17 Sept. (1970) xix. 282 My potted balsams..are still in beauty, tho' they have been blowing now more than three months. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. ix. 181 We have cards for her first party on the 28th.—Then she will be in beauty . View more context for this quotation 1828 R. Green Treat. Cultiv. Ornamental Flowers 52 If planted at the same time, [they] will succeed, and be in their beauty when the others are gone. 1878 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 10 Jan. 31/2 Our old friend Zygopetalum Mackayi, which has been in beauty for some five or six weeks past. 2011 C. Brooke Heiress in Love xxviii. 348 ‘Rosamund is in great beauty this evening,’ Lady Arden commented. b. the beauty of their wildness: the shedding of a deer's antlers. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > shed horns > shedding of decidence1615 the beauty of their wildness1632 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 185 Forresters and Hunters doe call this yearely mewing of their [sc. stags'] heads, the beauty of their wildnesse. c. beauty-in-the-ghost: spiritual (as opposed to bodily) beauty. rare. ΚΠ a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 92 Beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death Give beauty back..to God. d. U.S. colloquial. the beauty part: the best, most appealing, or most satisfying aspect of something. Cf. sense 6b. ΚΠ 1898 Washington Post 8 Feb. 6/7 Senator Pritchard is a great man, and the beauty part, he is equally kind and courteous. 1933 V. F. Nelson Prison Days & Nights ii. 22 But listen to this. Here's the beauty part. The very next guy that comes up before So-and-So is a guy that grabbed a hot car, a Buick or something. 1977 ‘W. Allen’ & M. Brickman Annie Hall in Four Films W. Allen (1982) 95 And you know what the beauty part is?.. We can always come back together again. 2009 New Yorker 24 Aug. 20/2 The beauty part is that no one can know what the delegates would come up with—which is why the idea has won such broad support. e. colloquial (originally Australian, New Zealand, in later use also Scottish) you (little, wee, etc.) beauty: expressing triumph, pleasure, or approval. Cf. you beaut at beaut n., adj., adv., and int. Phrases, beauty int. ΚΠ 1931 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, Austral.) 29 Sept. A man..jumped excitedly to his feet, shouted ‘you beauty’, and then dashed out of the theatre without waiting to explain whether he had drawn the first prize. 1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country (1937) 62 A tall fellow caught the ball..and dived over the line to score. The people clapped and roared, ‘You beauty, you little beauty!’ 1978 R. Saw & I. Milbank Back to Back Tango 56 ‘Turn on the booze..and don't forget it's on the house.’ ‘You little bloody bewdy.’ 1985 L. Lochhead tr. Molière Tartuffe 36 Fate's dealt me a trump card. Oh ya beauty! 1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 8 He bet on Charlie Sprout and won: ‘Yes, yah wee beauty!’ 2010 J. Shepherd Mr Asia 238 There was sheer joy in my voice as I yelled out, ‘You beauty!’ when the zero number turned up. f. England, home, and beauty: see England n. Phrases 2. g. age before beauty: see age n. Phrases 6. h. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: see area n. Phrases 1. P2. Proverbs and proverbial sayings. a. In various proverbs and proverbial sayings. ΚΠ a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. l. 70 No worldli beute in erthe may alway laste. a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 7637 For comonly hyt ys not seyn they be Herborured to-gedyr now in oo plase, Beawte and chastyte. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. 68^v Beautie and foly alway go togyther. 1601 T. Campion in P. Rosseter Bk. of Ayres i. xii. sig. E Thou shall proue, That beauty is no beautie without loue. 1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 55 Beauty without chastity, is like a Mandrake apple, comely in show, but poysonful in taste. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 35 Beauty is Potent; but Money is more Potent. 1840 Universalist Union 28 Mar. 300/1 The sage..maintained that in one and the same Man, Beauty and Wisdom seldom dwell together. 1896 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 466/2 The old adage that beauty draws smoke. 1904 N. Lorimer On Etna ix. 87 In the meantime would he live on love? for ‘beauty buys no beef’, as we say in England. 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 26 Jan. 24 Beauty does open doors, while ugliness has them slammed in its face. b. beauty is in the eye of the beholder: see beauty is in the eye of the beholder at eye n.¹ Phrases 1d(a)(iii). c. beauty is only skin-deep: see skin-deep adj. 1a. d. beauty draws more than oxen, beauty draws us with a single hair, and variants. Cf. one hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen at hair n. Additions. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C8^v Beauty drawes more then oxen. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 357 Fair Tresses Man's Imperial Race insnare, And Beauty draws us with a single Hair. 1837 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 528 If it be true that ‘Beauty draws us by a single hair,’ what must be the attraction, I thought, of a myriad mustered on my upper lip! 1884 J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida xiv. 180 Poor Jack! ‘Beauty draws us with a single hair,’ and here he was harnessed to each particular hair of the beauty's head, frizzes and all. 1898 Monist 8 269 As beauty draws more than oxen, so wit is a more effective weapon than the sword. 1941 ‘M. Coles’ They Tell no Tales xxii. 272 Beauty draws me with a single hair if it's blonde enough. 1945 R. L. Hine Confessions (ed. 2) 91 The old adage..that ‘beauty draws more than oxen.’ 1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. [In the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata] heroes abound, their heroisms subtly differentiated; beauty draws men with a single hair; miraculous births and magic powers abound. Compounds C1. a. (a) General use as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [adjective] Kevenhuller1746 Nazarene1788 beautya1889 stingy1965 1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin iii. 39 Par. But why to me this Beauty-reference? Merc. You, Sir, Jove knows,—can guess the difference—Betwixt—a Nymph—and a Nut-cracker. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 20 To nightly call Vesper, the beauty-crest of summer weather. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. x. 249 Young Apollo, with the beauty-bloom upon his chin! 1873 A. S. Stephens Bellehood & Bondage xxviii. 130 If she isn't too knowing, and don't put on beauty airs, perhaps it might do. a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 180 Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear For a beauty-bow to his hat. 1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 210 People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. 1994 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (rev. ed.) 255 Fear of limiting the power of the sex [sc. women] with the greater spending power, the greater beauty power, the greater sexual power, the greater net worth among its heads of households. (b) With the sense ‘used for or relating to the beautification of the face, body, or hair’, as beauty cream, beauty powder; beauty regimen, beauty tip; beauty editor, beauty magazine, etc. ΚΠ 1858 Morning Post 15 Sept. 1/3 (advt.) Récamier beauty powder..imparts freshness, softness, and velouté. 1888 Columbus Med. Jrnl. May 515 Of the numerous ‘face masks’, ‘beauty masks’, ‘complexion balms’,..not one is good in any respect. 1906 Advance 22 Mar. 364/3 A beauty magazine recommended corn-meal for taking out oil from hair. 1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies 36 Come here, Nancy, and put away the beauty cream. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 67 The beauty editor of the Star-Ledger appends several other recipes of a similarly homely nature. 1975 Jackie 15 Feb. 35/1 I read in a beauty article that you can brighten up dingy teeth by brushing them with peroxide. 1989 D. B. Feinberg Eighty-sixed (1990) x. 112 I lazed through Cosmopolitan for beauty tips. 1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 93/2 Aloe vera..is reputed to have played a part in Cleopatra's beauty routine. 2007 G. Garrett Beauty Secrets of Bible i. 1 The first step of any beauty regimen is cleansing. b. Objective and instrumental, as in beauty-lover, beauty-worshipper, etc.; also beauty-beaming, beauty-blushing, beauty-clad, etc., adjectives.Chiefly poetic in early use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > stroke of pencil > skill beauty1595 1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. C3^v (note) Thys beauty-clad naked Lady. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. B 4 This beauty-blushing orient of his rise. 1618 Owles Almanacke 56 You Beauty-shadowers, that robbe the raine-bow of her colours. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 65 All the vary'd Hues Their Beauty-beaming Parent can disclose. 1813 Ld. Byron Genevra 10 When from his beauty-breathing pencil born..The Magdalen of Guido saw the morn. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 1/3 A family of beauty-worshippers, we may possibly have rushed a little into our friendship with her. 1928 W. B. Yeats Tower 62 The Great Mother, mourning for her daughter And beauty-drunken by the water. 1977 BioScience 27 421/3 Wing patterns and [butterfly] specimens from the world over, a joy to naturalists, scientists, and beauty lovers. 2003 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. i. 20/3 Great recipes..for beauty-boosting fruit smoothies and soups. C2. beautyberry n. any of various ornamental shrubs of the genus Callicarpa (family Lamiaceae), whose members bear clusters of brightly coloured berry-like fruits and are widespread in the tropics and subtropics; esp. (more fully American beautyberry) C. americana of North and Central America, which has bright purple fruits. ΚΠ 1916 R. B. Cridland Pract. Landscape Gardening (ed. 2) xi. 243 (table) Callicarpa purpurea..Beauty Berry. 1957 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 24 July 4 Beautyberry has a small pink flower in summer, not striking in effect, yet more interesting than many other berried shrubs. 2009 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 2 May d8/2 Practically every other inquiry at our..nursery is about purple beautyberry. beauty bush n. a hardy deciduous shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis (family Caprifoliaceae), native to central and eastern China and bearing tubular white to pink flowers and brown bristly fruits. [In quot. 1840 rendering a local name for Fuchsia denticulata, reported (as ‘Mollo-Ccantu , id est Planta formosa’) in H. Ruiz & J. Pavon Flora Peruviana (1802) III. 87; compare Quechua mulli (also molle , mollo , etc.) tree (specifically Peruvian mastic, Schinus molle: see molle n.²) and kantu bush with colourful tubular flowers, Cantua buxifolia.] ΚΠ 1840 Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26 70 It is in this part of the world that the race of Fuchsias..developes those colours and forms which have gained for it among the Peruvians the name of Beauty-bush (Molle Ccantu).] 1927 National Nurseryman Mar. 79 (advt.) Kolkwitzia Amabilis, Beautybush... One of the most beautiful and rarest Arnold Arboretum introductions. A limited number offered to live nurserymen. 1931 E. I. Farrington Ernest H. Wilson: Plant Hunter ii. 23 Perhaps his favorite..was Kolkwitzia amabilis, which is a sort of glorified weigela, and to which the discoverer gave the common name of Beauty Bush. 2008 Independent 12 July (Mag.) 69/2 Kolkwitzia amabilis (beauty bush) has tiny foxglove flowers carried on upright, arching stems. beauty contestant n. originally U.S. a person, typically a woman, who takes part in a beauty contest (beauty contest n. 1). ΚΠ 1891 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 30 Dec. Miss Mattie Adams, a prize beauty contestant. 1965 Financial Times 3 Sept. 22/4 He impetuously marries an Italian beauty contestant. 2002 L. A. Jones Mama learned us to Work vi. 179 Two buxom beauty contestants grumbling that a homely, flat-chested, bespectacled woman had won the crown. beauty culture n. originally and chiefly U.S. the art or practice of improving personal appearance through hairdressing, cosmetic treatments, etc. (now esp. as a profession). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > the art of cosmetics cosmetic1605 cosmeticism1821 cosmetology1853 beauty culture1889 beauty therapy1924 1889 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Mar. 4/3 ‘Any woman who is not deformed can save herself from ugliness if she is not too indolent.’ ‘How?’ breathes the neophyte. ‘Simply by intelligent health and beauty culture.’ 1911 W. A. Woodbury (title) Beauty Culture: A Practical Handbook on the Care of the Person. 2011 J. C. Smith Encycl. Afr. Amer. Pop. Culture 127 Howell served on the first New Jersey Board of Beauty Culture Control, which regulated beauty shops and beauty culture training for all salons. beauty culturist n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who practises beauty culture (now esp. as a profession); a beautician. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally woman surgeon1629 beauty doctor1888 beauty culturist1889 beauty specialist1890 beautician1924 cosmetician1926 cosmetologist1926 visagiste1958 beauty therapist1962 aesthetician1965 1889 Bucks County (Pa.) Gaz. 11 Apr. 2/2 The new school of beauty culturists declare that the woman who is not beautiful by the time she is 60 has thrown away her time. 1919 Honey Pot 1 iii. 40 Dr. Caissarate, that wonderful beauty culturist. 2012 J. E. Brown Afr. Amer. Women Chemists iii. 25 Her father John Goode was a clerk in the War Department and her mother was a beauty culturist and osteopath. beauty doctor n. originally U.S. a beautician; (now also) a person who performs cosmetic surgery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally woman surgeon1629 beauty doctor1888 beauty culturist1889 beauty specialist1890 beautician1924 cosmetician1926 cosmetologist1926 visagiste1958 beauty therapist1962 aesthetician1965 1888 Boston Daily Advertiser 20 July 1/2 There is a woman in New York who has a growing clientele of patients coming to her to be treated for ugliness... This ‘Beauty doctor’, as she is called, has effected some wonderful cures of plainness. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. ix. 444 A strange throng of hangers-on—manicures, beauty-doctors, hair-dressers. 2010 A. Edmonds Pretty Mod. i. 97 Cosmetic surgery has always been to some extent an experimental practice... The experimental attitude among early beauty doctors to an extent survives. † beauty man n. Obsolete a beautiful man, esp. one who is effeminate; a fop, a dandy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 1800 F. H. Carlisle Step-mother v. i. 68 And this beauty man!—I mean him no disparagement—I know He's brave, and courteous, highly skill'd in arms. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. ii. 181 The Beauty-man is, nine times out of ten, little more than the oracle of his aunts, and the ‘sitch a love’ of the housemaids. 1910 Strand Mag. Jan. 643/2 A modern woman..has no place in her heart for the scented exquisite, who waves his hair, twists his moustache, manicures his hands, and admires his face in the looking-glass... The woman of to-day scorns the ‘beauty man’. † beauty-manner n. Obsolete a mode of behaviour or bearing typical of a beautiful woman. ΚΠ 1881 M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls II. vii. 143 She seemed to have acquired a sort of supercilious beauty-manner which her sister did not recollect in her. 1919 E. M. Kelly Why Joan? xiv. 109 She also cultivated a beauty-manner, modeling herself on a certain Louisville belle whose manœuvers she had observed with interest. beauty mark n. a small natural or artificial mark on the skin, esp. a mole or freckle on the face, which is considered to enhance a person's beauty; cf. beauty spot n. 2a. ΚΠ 1848 H. Martineau Eastern Life (U.S. ed.) i. iv. 53 Two who came from Dongola have their faces curiously gashed with three cuts on each cheek... These cuts are given them by their parents in childhood, for beauty marks. 1849 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 11 July Her cheeks and forehead were spotted with beauty marks. 1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes ii. 60 A sharp beauty mark right at her sensual mouth. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xxxv. 231 Her makeup..began to drip. A tiny velvet beauty mark slid down her chin. † beauty-mock n. Obsolete rare a woman whose beauty is not natural; a sham beauty. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > imitation of beauty-mock1608 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > an imitation > of beauty beauty-mock1608 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 113 Achab's Stock, With his proud Queen (a painted Beautie-mock). beauty pageant n. originally U.S. = beauty contest n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beauty contest beauty show1856 beauty contest1880 beauty parade1887 beauty pageant1911 pageant1911 1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 9 Apr. (Special Cable News section) a5/2 (heading) Pick blondes for beauty pageant. 1928 W. Brooke Graves Readings in Public Opinion iv. 126 Was the annual beauty pageant at Atlantic City objectionable on moral grounds? 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 1 June 29 The Miss Europe beauty pageant has had contestants from Turkey, Israel and Lebanon. beauty parlour n. originally U.S. = beauty salon n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification beauty parlour1881 beauty shop1890 beauty salon1906 salon1913 nail bar1971 1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 27 Aug. 6/2 A bearded son of Adam..opened a ‘Beauty Parlor’ at ‘Congress Hall’ for the restoration of faded charms..but his balms did not act like charms on the faces of the disappointed females who paid him from ten to twenty dollars for their representation. 1908 Harper's Weekly 24 Oct. 22/1 The ‘beauty parlors’ of a large department store. There are a number of booths divided off by wooden partitions. 1988 M. Brooks Paradise Café & Other Stories 20 A lady with stiff beauty parlour hair. 2011 Maya News 16 Feb. 34/1 Get a pedicure appointment booked at a beauty parlour or do it yourself at home. beauty patch n. now historical = patch n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > adorning with patches > ornamental patches or spots spot1578 patch1592 beauty spot1647 fly1658 mouche1676 gunpowder spot1681 powder-spot1683 beauty patch1691 mouchet1699 coquette patch1705 1691 G. Mackenzie Moral Hist. Frugality ii. 30 All the Paints and Beauty-Patches that Ladies can use. 1788 Morning Herald 30 Oct. Artificial teeth, eye-brows, queues, beauty patches, wigs, [etc.]. 1843 D. W. Jerrold Story of Feather xii. in Punch 4 144/1 ‘A great deal,’ answered the Countess, pressing her little finger to a beauty patch which threatened to fall from her chin. 2001 B. Cornwell Sharpe’s Prey (2003) 45 He..had a frail, birdlike face on which, astonishingly, a black velvet beauty patch was glued. beauty product n. any product, esp. a cream or lotion, intended to improve a person's appearance; frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > things used to beautify cosmetic1650 equipage1716 monkey-trap1849 accessory1887 beauty product1909 1909 N.A.R.D. Notes (U.S. National Assoc. Retail Druggists) 4 Feb. 7/1 The new 1909 catalogue..devotes a full page..to Mrs. Gervaise Graham and her ‘beauty’ products. 1939 Times 25 Sept. 5/7 (advt.) Amami shampoos and other beauty products. 1994 This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Sept. 40/2 If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only have one beauty product, which one would you choose? 2004 R. Weitz Rapunzel's Daughters i. 17 For decades the only beauty products advertised in black periodicals were skin lighteners, wigs with straight hair, and hair straighteners. † beauty-proof adj. Obsolete impervious to beauty; able to resist the charms of a beautiful woman; cf. woman-proof adj. at woman n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected dead1340 unsmittenc1400 unmovedc1480 unkindleda1525 senseless1560 lumpish1585 unfired1590 unaffectedc1595 incapable1601 unsensible1611 insensible1615 untouched1616 impervious1618 unanswering1632 untransported1641 beauty-proof1676 insensate1726 unsusceptible1734 uninfluenced1735 unimbued1813 unsmote1814 unsusceptive1825 unalive1828 echoless1869 non-conducting1871 unsusceptible1872 irresponsive1886 affectless1912 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > Philistine unseasoned1598 Gothish1602 Gothic1695 Vandal1752 beauty-proof1753 bourgeois1764 Philistine1831 palateless1860 philistinic1869 Philistinish1871 Babbitty1925 1676 T. Otway Don Carlos iii. 28 Unconstant Wav'ring heart why heav'st thou so?.. I who e're now have Armies led to fight..now am not Beauty proof. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xiv. 103 Beauty shall not bribe me on your side... I am Beauty-proof. 1827 Ant: Orig. Dept. 24 Feb. 53 What! do you fancy all mankind are blind, Or beauty-proof, that they may, quiet, endure The liquid sweetness of your speaking eye! 1914 Irish Monthly Nov. 632 Love songs go to the head like strong wine. A man should not sing them to fair ladies unless his heart and brain are beauty-proof. beauty salon n. an establishment which provides professional services to improve the appearance of the face, body, or hair; cf. salon n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification beauty parlour1881 beauty shop1890 beauty salon1906 salon1913 nail bar1971 1906 Daily Mail 8 Feb. 9/5 The next lotion is a spray redolent of spices, compounded from tinctures that tone up and brighten the skin, so that the patient may not depart from the beauty salon into the open air with pores weakened by the hot steam bath. 1975 Chem. Week 26 Mar. 37/1 Beauty salon hair dressers and cosmeticians expect women to go in for fancier coiffures. 2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 159/4 Help! I don't know what to do about my bikini line. I know you shouldn't shave down there, but I'm too shy to go to a beauty salon. beauty shop n. originally U.S. (a) a place where beauty products are prepared or sold; (b) = beauty salon n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > places of beautification beauty parlour1881 beauty shop1890 beauty salon1906 salon1913 nail bar1971 1890 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 18 May 4/5 Instead of going to the beauty shop for toilet lore, the beautifier comes to the school and gives a class or private lesson in face washes. 1901 Current Lit. Apr. 446/2 The Oldest Beauty-Shop... The perfumery of Santa Maria Novella was first made in 1508 by the Dominican Brotherhood. 1969 B. Knox Tallyman vii. 132 Janey Milton..on her way to have her hair set at a local beauty shop. 2012 Sun (Nexis) 18 Mar. 28 We're a one-stop beauty shop because we do everything from hair and beauty to Botox and fillers. beauty show n. = beauty parade n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beauty contest beauty show1856 beauty contest1880 beauty parade1887 beauty pageant1911 pageant1911 1856 C. Bede Shilling Bk. of Beauty 81 Ev'ry class was represented in ‘the Beauty Show’. 1907 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 Sept. (1941) 37 You would make me a curtain-raiser for a beauty show. 2000 Times 28 Sept. (T2 section) 35/2 Beauty show contestants are warned to hug their neighbour in the line-up if her name is called out by the judges. beauty sleep n. colloquial (now chiefly humorous) (frequently with possessive) sleep considered necessary to keep a person looking beautiful; extra sleep; (also) any sleep. In early use referring to sleep taken before midnight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > at specific time night sleepOE beauty sleep1828 1828 C. White Herbert Milton III. ii. 69 It [sc. a party] was attended principally by married women, who, if they had daughters out, generally took this opportunity of sending them to seek beauty sleep in bed before ten o'clock. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. xv. 148 A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep’. 1959 M. Spark Memento Mori x. 145 You must get your beauty sleep for the photographer tomorrow. 2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 141 Sorry to disturb your beauty sleep. beauty specialist n. a specialist in beauty treatment; a beautician. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally woman surgeon1629 beauty doctor1888 beauty culturist1889 beauty specialist1890 beautician1924 cosmetician1926 cosmetologist1926 visagiste1958 beauty therapist1962 aesthetician1965 1890 Yorks. Herald 16 Aug. 5/4 Professor Thurrow, the American Beauty Specialist, in to-day addressing the Ladies of York advises them..to send P.O. for 2s. for his wonderful recipe for removing hairs from the neck and face. 1938 N. Marsh Death in White Tie xxix. 305 Mrs. Halcut-Hackett..looking like a beauty-specialist's mistake. 2011 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 14 July (Features section) 44 The level 3 diploma in spa therapy is aimed at experienced beauty specialists. beauty therapist n. a person who provides beauty therapy; a beautician. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > one who beautifies > professionally woman surgeon1629 beauty doctor1888 beauty culturist1889 beauty specialist1890 beautician1924 cosmetician1926 cosmetologist1926 visagiste1958 beauty therapist1962 aesthetician1965 1962 Times 21 July 1/3 State registered nurse..required..by West End beauty therapist for training..in electrolysis and beauty therapy. 1988 R. Tisserand Aromatherapy for Everyone (1990) i. 2 The use of aromatherapy oils, often ready-blended, by beauty therapists. 2006 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) July 109 Ice has been traditionally used by beauty therapists to numb the pain of waxing. beauty therapy n. (the provision of) various treatments aimed at improving a person's appearance or well-being; (also) an instance of this, a beauty treatment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] > the art of cosmetics cosmetic1605 cosmeticism1821 cosmetology1853 beauty culture1889 beauty therapy1924 1924 Helena (Montana) Independent 4 Dec. 4/3 The time is just about ripe for them [sc. beauty culturists] to make beauty therapy imply a certain definite degree of skill. 1978 A. Gallant Body Treatm. & Dietetics for Beauty Therapist v. 222 The following routine of strokes should provide a good base for massage work in the beauty therapy field. 1990 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 131 Lunch, dinner, golf and beauty therapies are extra. 2004 Nat. Health Nov. 49/2 The spectrum of cosmetic treatments that start with standard beauty therapy and progress through medical treatments. beauty treatment n. the use of facials, manicures, etc., to improve personal appearance; (also) an instance of this, a session with a beautician. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > treatments complexioning1656 beauty treatment1882 facial1910 1882 S. E. Morrill Treat. of Pract. Instr. in Med. & Surg. Uses of Elec. x. 73 This is the way we give what we call beauty treatment, by rubbing the face with the cloth charged with electricity. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxxiii. 282 Beauty treatment is never cheap. 1977 Occup. Outlook College Graduates (U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics) 17/1 Men and women who assist professional nurses in hospitals, give haircuts and beauty treatments, [etc.]. 1999 C. Dolan Ascension Day (2000) vi. 106 Right. That's you booked in for the full beauty treatment and manicure, madam. † beauty-waning adj. poetic Obsolete becoming, or causing to become, less beautiful. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > waning in beauty fade1303 beauty-waning1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 175 A beauty-waining and distressed widow. View more context for this quotation 1887 R. J. Flanagan Australian & Other Poems 72 Methought how hard that e'er that witching maze Of charms into the beauty-waning tide Of age should float. beauty wash n. a liquid cosmetic used to cleanse or beautify the skin. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids waterOE maiden milk?a1425 May-dew?a1425 milk of almondsa1425 maidens' milk?c1450 lac Virginis1477 surflingc1555 surfle1593 virgin's milk1600 lotion1606 washa1627 beauty water1675 mercury-water1676 beauty wash1706 Kalydor1824 skin tonic1863 flower-water1886 Limacol1936 moisture lotion1957 toning lotion1960 toner1970 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. ii. 23 This small Venetian Bottle, So prim, so pretty, and so little, Contains a Beauty-Wash, not common, The best that e'er was us'd by a Woman. 1854 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 451/1 The water thus collected, is deemed by rustics a cure for warts on the hands—a beauty-wash for the face; for which reason the French call it ‘Venus's Tub’. 1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 5 Aug. 42 Take your pick from the beauty fluid, £2.99, foaming beauty wash, £2.79, and replenishing cream, £5.29. beauty water n. now historical a liquid preparation that is applied to the skin, esp. on the face, for cleansing or cosmetic purposes; a beauty wash. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids waterOE maiden milk?a1425 May-dew?a1425 milk of almondsa1425 maidens' milk?c1450 lac Virginis1477 surflingc1555 surfle1593 virgin's milk1600 lotion1606 washa1627 beauty water1675 mercury-water1676 beauty wash1706 Kalydor1824 skin tonic1863 flower-water1886 Limacol1936 moisture lotion1957 toning lotion1960 toner1970 1675 Accomplish'd Lady's Delight 195 (heading) An Excellent Beauty-water, used by the D. of C. 1738 Reveur (Edinb.) 3 Feb. She complained to me Yesterday of a Wrinkle she had contracted..and beg'd a Vial of my Beauty-water. 1840 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 29 Feb. (advt.) Ladies' beauty water, or true eau de beaute... This chemical preparation..as a wash for perfuming, cleansing, and preserving the skin has no equal. 2008 I. C. Fabretti in J. Condra Greenwood Encycl. Clothing World Hist. II. 35 Sforza also concocted several different ‘beauty waters’ to brighten the complexion and remove freckles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). beautyadj.int. Brit. /ˈbjuːti/, U.S. /ˈbjudi/, Australian English /ˈbjuːti/, /ˈbjuːdi/, New Zealand English /ˈbjuːdi/, Manx English /ˈbjuːti/ Forms: 1500s beautist (superlative), 1700s–1800s beautiest (superlative), 1800s– beauty, 1900s– beaudy, 1900s– bewdy. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: beauty n. Etymology: < beauty n.In later use in superlative beautiest in sense A. 1 probably influenced by beauteous adj. Compare the following misquotations from Shakespeare ( Taming of Shrew ii. ii. 41–2) and Ebenezer Elliott, which both show beauteous adj. in the original: 1846 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 20 Apr. Kindness in woman not their beautiest looks, Shall win our love.1849 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 2 June 6/1 And knowledge spread her beautiest feast For all mankind! A. adj. 1. Beautiful; highly pleasing to the sight. Chiefly in the superlative. In later use regional or nonstandard.In quots. 1825 and 1877 representing the speech of non-native English speakers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] smickerc725 faireOE lieflyOE sheenOE wenlichc1000 wlitic1000 lovesomec1175 lustya1240 flourisheda1375 lovelya1400 weenc1400 beauteous1435 beautifulc1443 finec1450 pulchriousa1500 speciousa1513 shanda1525 speciosea1525 pulchrousc1540 bonny1580 beauty1598 lovelike1621 killing1634 florid1642 beautied1830 stunning1849 fairsome1862 pulchritudinous1877 beaut1894 loverly1907 1598 M. Cavendish 14 Ayres sig. K The birth day of the beautist of beauties. a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 295 The best of Love, and Beautiest object bee Then met together. 1825 J. Smith Month France & Switzerland 74 After telling us that the roads..were ‘the beautiest roads ever seen’, our good-tempered courier rode on to order our breakfast. 1877 A. Arnold Through Persia by Caravan I. x. 195 She was ‘very beauty’, ‘very beauty’, and he confessed to having made her an offer. 1896 J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy xii. 141 ‘If Thrums had been one little bit beautier than it is,’ he went on solemnly, ‘it would have struck me dumb.’ 1924 P. Mackaye This Fine-pretty World i. 33 Sich a certain young-springin'-up ole man, with the beautiest solid face in the beard of him. 2003 CNN: Live from Headlines (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 20 June We are not in a race for who is the beautiest of them all. 2. Manx English and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire). That is a large or impressive example of its kind. Cf. beauty n. 5d. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > choice or excellent chisa700 ycorec900 trya1300 walea1325 richc1330 choice1340 tried1362 chief1519 select1590 selected1605 recherché1689 tid1727 pick1790 selectable1836 beauty1895 plum1923 shit-kicking1961 1895 E. Rydings Manx Tales 11 I..showed them, with a true angler's pride, my morning's work; they both said they were ‘beauty troutses’. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 9/2 Beauty,..beautiful, fine, large. ‘There's beauty potatoes.’ 3. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand). As a general term of approval or satisfaction: superb, excellent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate gildenc1225 prime1402 rare1483 grand1542 holy1599 pre-excelling1600 paregal1602 classic1604 of (the) first rate1650 solary1651 first rate1674 superb1720 tip-top1722 tip-top-gallant1730 swell1819 topping1822 of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826 No. 11829 brag1836 A11837 A No. 11838 number one1839 awful1843 bully1851 first class1852 class1867 champion1880 too1881 tipping1887 alpha plus1898 bonzer1898 grade A1911 gold star1917 world-ranking1921 five-star1936 too much1937 first line1938 vintage1939 supercolossal1947 top1953 alpha1958 fantabulous1959 beauty1963 supercool1965 world-class1967 primo1973 1963 R. Casey As Short a Spring 276 The beauty times are when you get in with the mob and do the rounds of the brothels and grog-shops. 1977 Southerly 37 160 ‘How are you Raelene?’ ‘Beau-dy,’ she said. ‘It's great being back home.’ 1999 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 1 Mar. s3 He scored some beauty goals in the series, but the one I remember was the third game. 2010 Sunday Tel. Mag. (Sydney) (Nexis) 11 Apr. 28 Drizzle this beauty bottler over a simple mix of crisp cos lettuce and cucumber for a side with sweet bite. B. int. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. Expressing pleasure or approval. Cf. beaut int. ΚΠ 1951 Oxf. Dict. N.Z. Eng. (at cited word) Beauty [exclam. of delight]. 1968 F. J. Thwaites Sky full of Thunder 100 ‘How's our tucker going?’ ‘Will be ready soon.’ ‘Beauty.’ 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Jan. 24 (heading) Bewdy mate! True blue Aussie telly. 2012 D. Spiteri Prez v. 67 Rastus can keep our little earn going and I can work with you blokes. Beauty! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). beautyv. Brit. /ˈbjuːti/, U.S. /ˈbjudi/ Forms: see beauty n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: beauty n. Etymology: < beauty n. Compare earlier beautify v. Now somewhat archaic. transitive. To make beautiful or more beautiful; to adorn or decorate; to beautify. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] fairOE highta1200 embellishc1385 beautifyc1425 decore1490 beauty1495 embeauty1523 decorate1530 fashion1557 busk1573 gracify?1578 embrave1579 handsome1592 pulchrify1797 orchidize1872 lovelify1935 bellify- bellish- 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxxiii. sig. Qij/1 Floures..defoyleth not the yerde: but bewtyeth it. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlii. 131 The Pecocke sayd, he is gretly beautyed by reason of my fethers. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 53 The harlots cheeke beautied with plastring art. View more context for this quotation 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. 42 Thy Faith's the Lid, thy Love the Ball, Beautying thy graceful Mein with Form Angelical. 1771 R. Michell Poems 12 Her rosy Cheeks beautied her Lily Face. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 201 The altars of the gods in wreathed festoons Are beautied. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 110/2 The Perfect Tooth Soap, for cleaning, beautying and preserving the teeth. 1947 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 19 Aug. 5/3 Zinnias and other colorful summer flowers beautied the rooms. 1990 Southern Times Messenger (Adelaide) (Nexis) 27 June For years now he has beautied our State with his often unnoticed hard work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1350adj.int.1598v.1495
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