beaux yeuxn.
Beautiful eyes; attractive beauty; admiring glances, favour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun]
drawingc1300
favourc1300
gracea1382
graciousnessa1425
likingnessc1450
allurement1548
allurance1574
seemliness1577
gracefulnessa1586
blandishment1594
attractiveness1622
takingness1652
engagingness1727
winningness1727
temptingness1802
cuteness1807
attachingness1808
winsomeness1825
beaux yeux1828
prepossessingness1876
enchantingness1879
aegyo1997
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > [noun]
well-likinglOE
gracec1300
favoura1340
grace and favour1542
rooma1591
propitiation1639
good graces1670
beaux yeux1828
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > with reference to beauty
beaux yeux1828
1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 110 I tried this method of making a little whig of myself, pour les beaux yeux de mi Lord Ponsonby.]
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxii. 182 He will scratch out the lady's beaux yeux.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. xxvii. 262 The poor fellow is mad for your beaux yeux, I believe.
1908 Mrs. H. Ward Diana Mallory ii. xii. 252 Oliver condemn himself to the simple life..for the sake of the beaux yeux of Diana Mallory!
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 165/1 The beaux yeux of Victor Emmanuel and Cavour were being expensively purchased at the price of thousands of French lives.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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