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beau ideal
noun
- a conception of perfect beauty.
- a model of excellence.
beau idéal
/ bo ideal /
noun
- perfect beauty or excellence
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Origin of beau ideal1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
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.
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