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Beauty, Feminine |
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Beauty, Feminine See also Beauty, Sensual. Amoret (Amoretta) typical of female loveliness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene, Brewer Dictionary, 30] poet’s beautiful beloved. [Am. Lit.: “Annabel Lee” in Portable Poe] (Rom. Venus) archetype of feminine beauty. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 24] beautiful goddess of fertility and sexual love. [Phoenician Myth.: Zimmerman, 33] king David killed to gain her. [O.T.: II Samuel 11] beautiful woman married to an enchanted beast who turns into a prince. [Fr. Fairy Tale: “Beauty and the Beast” in Walsh Classical, 49] beautiful queen of Egypt; wins Marc Antony’s heart. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra] traditional symbol. [Chinese Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 377] prophesied to become the most beautiful woman in Ireland. [Irish Legend: Benét, 259] her good looks stir John Ridd and others. [Br. Lit.: Lorna Doone, Magill I, 524–526] Jurgen’s childhood sweetheart; when he finds her again in a magic garden she has retained the beauty he had praised in his poems. [Am. Lit.: Jurgen in Magill I, 464] Goya’s lover and model, immortalized on canvas. [Span. Art: Wallechinsky, 192] most beautiful woman in Ireland. [Irish Folklore: Briggs, 123–125]
goddess of love, beauty, and fecundity; beautiful, blue-eyed blonde. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 425] statue so striking, Venus grants sculptor Pygmalion’s wish that it live. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 286] classic, comely woman of illustrations (1890s). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 283] epitome of the beautiful Chinese woman. [Irish Lit.: Messer Marco Polo, Magill I, 584–585] beautiful cupbearer to the gods. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 117] beautiful woman kidnapped by smitten Paris, precipitating Trojan war. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad; Trojan Women; Euripides, Helene] (c. 370–415) Greek philosopher, renowned for beauty and wit. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 1302] Burgundian princess’s beauty known throughout Europe. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied] farmer’s daughter; every bachelor fancies her. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote] (1755–1793) beautiful queen consort of King Louis XVI of France. [Fr. Hist.: EB, VI: 620] annually selected most beautiful young woman in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 56–57] epitome of a beautiful Southern belle. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind] Botticelli’s hauntingly beautiful young model. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190] snow-toned flesh, ebony hair, blood-red lips. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 184] “Her beauty remained forever in Boone’s memory.” [Am. Lit.: The Big Sky] lovely Tahitian girl loved by Byam. [Br. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] rich farmer’s daughter, pursued by Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] armless statue of pulchritudinous goddess. [Gk. Art: Brewer Dictionary, 1126] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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