beauteous

beau·te·ous | \ ˈbyü-tē-əs

Definition of beauteous

chiefly literary

: beautiful beauteous mountains a beauteous smile … thou hast given me in this beauteous face / A world of earthly blessings to my soul— William Shakespeare … high summer pours her blue glory and her golden light out of that beauteous sky …— Charlotte Brontë "My eyes swept over all before me. The spheres were plain as villages that dot a landscape. I saw most beauteous forms, yet like our own."— Herman Melville

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a beauteous woman in a ball gown

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