Sleeping Beauty

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noun

a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.

(italics) the fairy tale itself.

(italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.

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How to use Sleeping Beauty in a sentence

Free Guy is a little like Ready Player One jumbled with The Truman Show, with some Sleeping Beauty and The Velveteen Rabbit mixed in.
Ryan Reynolds' Charm Can't Quite Liberate Free Guy From a Cluttered Plot|Stephanie Zacharek|August 13, 2021|Time
With these films, Disney is presenting its own takes on age-old fairy tales, be it Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, or The Little Mermaid, as a new canon, ready to be tweaked, adapted, and reimagined like the classics.
Counterpoint: Disney’s Girlboss ‘Cruella’ Actually Rules|Kevin Fallon|May 28, 2021|The Daily Beast
What were your first impressions of Maleficent when you first watched Sleeping Beauty?
The ‘Maleficent’ Screenwriter Also Wrote ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’|Kevin Fallon|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Braun is already milking high end fairy tale spoofs, with a naughty version of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty coming soon.
The Art of Smutty Spoofs: Porn Parodies Aren’t a Joke Anymore|Aurora Snow|March 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Or as Ahrenberg says with delight, “We have awoken Sleeping Beauty.”
The Great Book of Picasso Returns|Sarah Moroz|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was, one of the inventorying experts said, like “stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty.”
The Parisian Belle Epoque Time Capsule|Nina Strochlic|February 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The dark telling of Sleeping Beauty hits theaters this summer.
Macklemore Apologizes Over Grammy Win; Quentin Tarantino Sues Gawker|Culture Team|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She was the Sleeping Beauty in the wood, who had woken up and remembered nothing, and could never recover from the long trance.
Overlooked|Maurice Baring
And a palace indeed it is, which might suit the Sleeping Beauty herself.
Harper's Young People, July 12, 1881|Various
This was the palace of the sleeping beauty to which he had penetrated.
The Haunting of Low Fennel|Sax Rohmer
This ballet is far weaker than The Sleeping Beauty—no doubt about it.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
It was only luck that it was a prince who awakened the Sleeping Beauty.
Hints to Pilgrims|Charles Stephen Brooks

Cultural definitions for Sleeping Beauty

“Sleeping Beauty”

A fairy tale from the collection of Charles Perrault, about a beautiful princess cast into a deep sleep through a jealous fairy's curse. Sleeping Beauty is awakened at last by the kiss of a prince.