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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The first known use of beauteous was in the 15th century
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