“Beauty and the Beast”

Cultural  

1. A French fairy tale about a beautiful and gentle young woman who is taken to live with a man-beast in return for a good deed the Beast did for her father. Beauty is kind to the well-mannered Beast but pines for her family until the Beast allows her to visit them. Once home, Beauty delays her return until she hears that the Beast is dying without her. She returns to the Beast and brings him back to health. When she agrees to marry him, the evil spell upon him is broken, and he becomes a handsome prince. Beauty and her prince live happily ever after.

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Example Sentences

The last film to do this was Beauty and the Beast in 1991.

From BBC

The now 46-year-old actor has gone on to appear in blockbusters like The Hobbit and Disney's Beauty and the Beast, as well as releasing two albums.

From BBC

There was a rolling ladder attached to the bookshelf, and Danny wanted to ask if he could slide around on it the way Belle did in Beauty and the Beast.

From Literature

The Academy Award-nominated director’s decades-spanning work at Disney also included turns as a writer, storyboard artist and animator for beloved films such as “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”

From Los Angeles Times

They have seen the classic Disney film Beauty and the Beast, but never realised watching the story "live" was even possible.

From BBC