beauty : Idioms & Phrases


beauty bush

  • 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

  • noun someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance
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beauty parlor

  • noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
    beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty parlour

  • noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
    beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty quark

  • 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

  • noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
    beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty shop

  • noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
    beauty parlour; salon; beauty salon; beauty parlor.
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beauty sleep

  • noun sleep before midnight
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Beauty spot

  • 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

  • noun enhancement of someone's personal beauty
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california beauty

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 as Deergrass.
Webster 1913

meadow-beauty family

  • 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.
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Painted beauty

  • 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,
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raw beauty

  • noun beauty that is stark and powerfully impressive
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rock beauty

  • noun gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
    Holocanthus tricolor.
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rome beauty

  • noun large red apple used primarily for baking
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sleeping beauty

  • noun fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss
  • noun a person who is sleeping soundly
  • noun a potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play
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Spring beauty

  • 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 genus Claytonia, 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

  • noun small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
    Claytonia virginica.
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