Beautiful person
(often initial capital letters) wealthy or famous people, often members of the jet set, who mingle in glamorous social circles and who, because of their celebrity, often establish trends or fashions.
Contemporary Examples
It is funny how friends disappear when they see you at a class reunion and you are not the beautiful person you once were.
Your Puffy-Face Moments, Inspired by Ashley Judd April 12, 2012
They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a “beautiful person.”
Gay Talese on Charlie Manson’s Home on the Range Gay Talese October 30, 2014
Historical Examples
It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
The Oxford Book of American Essays Various
Anne thought she was the most beautiful person she had ever seen.
The Prisoner Alice Brown
How then is a beautiful person to be degraded by anything the likes of you, or your fellow-dog, do to her?
Rest Harrow Maurice Hewlett
Helim had an only child, a girl of noble soul, and a most beautiful person.
Thackerayana William Makepeace Thackeray
He told her this, and that, and the other; that he loved her dearly; that she was the most beautiful person in the world.
The Imaginary Invalid Molire
I used to think she was the most beautiful person in the world.
The Literary Sense E. Nesbit
So, too, on beholding a beautiful person, how common the wish that the mind it clothed were also good!
Lectures on Art Washington Allston
He said Electra was beautiful, quite the most beautiful person in the world.
Rose MacLeod Alice Brown
plural noun
(sometimes capitals) the beautiful people, rich, fashionable people in international high society
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having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying. the concept of […]
- Beautifulness
having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying. the concept of […]
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having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying. the concept of […]
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(often used ironically) something or someone beautiful, remarkable, or amazing. Historical Examples You havent had a good pair of horns yet, and that fellow has some beauts. Jack Ranger’s Gun Club Clarence Young “They are ‘beauts,’ all of them, and I’ll give them a good chance to spread themselves,” said Sam. The Fat of the […]
- Beautifying
to make or become beautiful. Historical Examples Decoration is the science and art of beautifying objects and rendering them more pleasing to the eye. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various She will do her own beautifying work, and everybody will know her sign. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry […]