(obsolete, poetic) beautiful; embellished

simple past tense and past participle of beauty

(nonstandard) beauty, beautifulness / the quality of having beauty

plural of beautifulness

present participle of beauty

plural of beautiful

A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault. / The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.

Alternative form of sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata).

(physics, dated) Synonym of bottom quark.

(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).