beauty : Idioms & Phrases
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- beauty bush
- beauty consultant
- beauty parlor
- beauty parlour
- beauty quark
- beauty salon
- beauty shop
- beauty sleep
- Beauty spot
- beauty treatment
- california beauty
- camberwell beauty
- carolina spring beauty
- Flemish beauty
- Line of beauty
- Meadow beauty
- meadow-beauty family
- Oak beauty
- Painted beauty
- raw beauty
- rock beauty
- rome beauty
- sleeping beauty
- Spring beauty
- virginia spring beauty
beauty bush
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noun Chinese deciduous shrub with yellow-throated pinkish flowers and bristly fruit; often cultivated as an ornamental
Kolkwitzia amabilis.
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beauty consultant
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noun someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance
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beauty parlor
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noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty parlour
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noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty quark
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noun a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron
bottom quark.
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beauty salon
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noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty shop
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noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty sleep
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noun sleep before midnight
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Beauty spot
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noun a spot that is worn on a lady's face for adornment
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- a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.
Webster 1913
beauty treatment
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noun enhancement of someone's personal beauty
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california beauty
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noun any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
flannelbush; flannel bush.
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camberwell beauty
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noun of temperate regions; having dark purple wings with yellow borders
Nymphalis antiopa; mourning cloak; mourning cloak butterfly.
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carolina spring beauty
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noun similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
Claytonia caroliniana.
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Flemish beauty
(Bot.) , a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side.
Webster 1913
Line of beauty
(Fine Arts) , an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth).
Webster 1913
Meadow beauty
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noun any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America
deer grass.
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(Bot.) Same asDeergrass .
Webster 1913
meadow-beauty family
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noun a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae.
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Oak beauty
(Zoöl.) , a British geometrid moth (Biston prodromaria ) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Webster 1913
Painted beauty
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noun American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots
Vanessa virginiensis.
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(Zoöl.) , a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera ), having a variety of bright colors,
Webster 1913
raw beauty
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noun beauty that is stark and powerfully impressive
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rock beauty
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noun gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
Holocanthus tricolor.
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rome beauty
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noun large red apple used primarily for baking
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sleeping beauty
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noun fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss
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noun a person who is sleeping soundly
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noun a potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play
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Spring beauty
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noun small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
Clatonia lanceolata.
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(a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genusClaytonia , delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime .(b) (Zoöl.) A small, elegant American butterfly (Erora læta ) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.
Webster 1913
virginia spring beauty
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noun small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
Claytonia virginica.