Examples from literature

• About these young belles gathered the densest throng of all the crowd. 
• No belle ever kept her clothes in better order than these were. 
• Philippa was, as heretofore, the belle, looking more than usually lovely in a light gossamer dress of white and pink. 
• The fashionable belles and beauties were not even aware of her existence, being too entirely absorbed in their yearly husband-hunt to think of any one but themselves and their prey. 
• You'll be the belle of the ball, Virginia.