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plain Jane /ˌpleɪn ˈdʒeɪn / informal, chiefly US An unattractive girl or woman: he’d never give a plain Jane like you a second’s thought...- Its angle is to take a group of plain Janes, make them over into glamour girls, and then have them all take part in a season-ending beauty pageant.
- But then as realisation dawns that the array of beauty products have not after all kept their ‘promise’ of turning the plain Jane into a stunning beauty as in those alluring ads, the search for newer range begins.
- Sixteen plain Janes fight it out in an extreme new reality show in a bid to become a beauty queen.
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