Sleeping Beauty
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.
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“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.
Sleeping Beauty
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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.
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(italics) the fairy tale itself.
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(italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.
“Sleeping Beauty”
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A world premiere by Gregory Spears casts a veil of dream-like haunting over the story of Sleeping Beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Fanning: I was in “Maleficent” and I played Sleeping Beauty, so like Disney princess in pink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Animals emerge from hibernation, like Sleeping Beauty woken from her death-like 100-year sleep.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
Disney’s first live-action Maleficent film, starring Jolie as the evil fairy who curses Sleeping Beauty, earned $759.9 million worldwide in its 2014 release, while “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” grossed $491.7 million globally five years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
I have theater-sized posters from the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
“Sleepers Awake” by Gregory Spears, given its world premiere by Opera Philadelphia at the Academy of Music on Wednesday, turns “Sleeping Beauty” on its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
It was the first time the cast members of “Sleeping Beauty” were rehearsing in their costumes, and they were amped up.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
On a recent morning, Lindsay Schulte put “Sleeping Beauty” on the television and laid Brynn on a blanket on the kitchen counter.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
Disney’s revisionist “Maleficent” took the “Sleeping Beauty” story that inspired the studio’s own 1959 animated classic and turned it upside down, right on the horned head of its titular protagonist.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2019
Mr. S. is the illustrious author of the “Sleeping Beauty” and some Comedies, particularly “Maids and Bachelors.”
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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