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beau ideal

noun

, plural beaus ideal, beaux ideal beau ideals

beau idéal

/ bo ideal /

First recorded in 1795–1805, beau ideal is from French beau idéal literally, “ideal beauty.” See beau, ideal

literally: ideal beauty

But that just made Summer more enticing, an unobtainable Beau Ideal.

The landlady came; a fit spirit to rule over such a domain—the beau-ideal of tidiness and good humour.

Nothing too much; nothing lacking—just the beau-ideal of a bachelor's parlor.

He was well qualified for a hero of romance, or a woman's beau-ideal.

This prince of the seventeenth century was the beau-ideal decadent that many modern novelists have delighted to depict.

He seemed to me the beau ideal of a country gentleman: nothing less than this, and something more.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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