Beauty, Feminine

Beauty, Feminine

See also Beauty, Sensual.Amoret (Amoretta)typical of female loveliness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene, Brewer Dictionary, 30]Annabel Leepoet’s beautiful beloved. [Am. Lit.: “Annabel Lee” in Portable Poe]Aphrodite(Rom. Venus) archetype of feminine beauty. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 24]Astartebeautiful goddess of fertility and sexual love. [Phoenician Myth.: Zimmerman, 33]Bathshebaking David killed to gain her. [O.T.: II Samuel 11]Beautybeautiful woman married to an enchanted beast who turns into a prince. [Fr. Fairy Tale: “Beauty and the Beast” in Walsh Classical, 49]Cleopatrabeautiful queen of Egypt; wins Marc Antony’s heart. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra]crabapple blossomtraditional symbol. [Chinese Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 377]Deirdreprophesied to become the most beautiful woman in Ireland. [Irish Legend: Benét, 259]Doone, Lornaher good looks stir John Ridd and others. [Br. Lit.: Lorna Doone, Magill I, 524–526]Dorothy la DésiréeJurgen’s childhood sweetheart; when he finds her again in a magic garden she has retained the beauty he had praised in his poems. [Am. Lit.: Jurgen in Magill I, 464]Duchess of AlbaGoya’s lover and model, immortalized on canvas. [Span. Art: Wallechinsky, 192]Etainmost beautiful woman in Ireland. [Irish Folklore: Briggs, 123–125]Freyagoddess of love, beauty, and fecundity; beautiful, blue-eyed blonde. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 425]Galateastatue so striking, Venus grants sculptor Pygmalion’s wish that it live. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 286]Gibson girlclassic, comely woman of illustrations (1890s). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 283]Golden Bellsepitome of the beautiful Chinese woman. [Irish Lit.: Messer Marco Polo, Magill I, 584–585]Hebebeautiful cupbearer to the gods. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 117]Helen of Troybeautiful woman kidnapped by smitten Paris, precipitating Trojan war. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad; Trojan Women; Euripides, Helene]Hypatia(c. 370–415) Greek philosopher, renowned for beauty and wit. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 1302]KriemhildBurgundian princess’s beauty known throughout Europe. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]Marcellafarmer’s daughter; every bachelor fancies her. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote]Marie Antoinette(1755–1793) beautiful queen consort of King Louis XVI of France. [Fr. Hist.: EB, VI: 620]Miss Americaannually selected most beautiful young woman in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 56–57]O’Hara, Scarlettepitome of a beautiful Southern belle. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind]SimonettaBotticelli’s hauntingly beautiful young model. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190]Snow Whitesnow-toned flesh, ebony hair, blood-red lips. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 184]Teal Eye“Her beauty remained forever in Boone’s memory.” [Am. Lit.: The Big Sky]Tehanilovely Tahitian girl loved by Byam. [Br. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty]Van Tassel, Katrinarich farmer’s daughter, pursued by Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]Venus de Miloarmless statue of pulchritudinous goddess. [Gk. Art: Brewer Dictionary, 1126]