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Beautiful

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Beautiful or fair as an angel. Throughout the Middle Ages it was common to associate beauty with virtue, and ugliness with sin; hence the expressions given above, and the following also—“Seraphic beauty,” “Cherubic loveliness,” “Ugly as sin,” etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Beatific Vision
Beatrice
Bean
Beau Ideal
Beau Jour beau Retour (A)
Beau Lion (Un)
Beau Monde
Beau Trap
Beauclerc [good scholar]
Beaumontague [pronounce bo-montaig]
Beautiful
Beautiful Parricide
Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty of Buttermere
Beauty Sleep
Beaux Esprits (French)
Beaux Yeux (French)
Beaver
Beaver
Becarre, Bemol