beauty queenn.
/ˈbjuːtɪ ˌkwiːn/, U.S. /ˈbjudi ˌkwin/ 1. A woman who surpasses all others in beauty; an outstandingly beautiful woman.In later use typically influenced by sense 2, implying a beautiful woman who has the glamorous look of a beauty contestant.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman
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1835 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 266 Zeuxis from mortal forms could take His beauty-queen divine.
1883 Boston Daily Advertiser 6 July 5/4 The Princess of Wales..was, as usual, the beauty-queen of the party.
1942 P. Grainger Let. 30 Sept. in All-round Man (1994) 188 A woman of my own—a beauty queen & princess-of-art.
1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 144 Mami never was no beauty queen, no Rita Moreno. She got fat fast after having me, wearing her big dresses and her polyester pants.
2012 T. D. Rush Reality's Pen 65 Pam [Grier] was the woman of our teenage dreams, our beauty queen of the 1970's.
2. A woman who has won a beauty contest.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > beauty queen
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1888 Era 25 Feb. 24/1 The Beauty Queen. Miss Jenny Valmore. Winner of the First Prize in the Birmingham Beauty Competition.
1897 Boston Daily Globe 25 Aug. 6/5 She is highly accomplished, and is truly the beauty queen of Texas.
1922 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. 19/6 The winning beauty will be heralded as America's ‘Beauty Queen’.
1960 Guardian 11 June 7/4 Seventeen national beauty queens compete for the title ‘Miss Europe’.
2010 A. DeMonte in R. Chapman Culture Wars 39/1 Cases have even been reported in which reigning beauty queens were warned to maintain slimness or risk forfeiting their crown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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