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A bevy of beauties.
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Venereal Terms: Names of Groups
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Etymology: from about 1275, from Anglo-Norman beute, from Old French bealte, earlier beltet, from Vulgar Latin bellitatem, "state of being handsome", from Latin bellus, "fine, beautiful"; in classical Latin especially a reference to women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
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bell-, bel-
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