beauty spot
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beauty spot
- /ˈbjuːtɪ ˌspɒt/ UK
- /ˈbjuti ˌspɑt/ US
- [-ɾi-] US
Where it comes from
From beauty (noun) + spot (noun). Some uses of sense 1 (“thing which is beautiful”) are figurative uses of sense 1.2 (“patch on the face to heighten beauty”).
noun beauty spots
- A thing (especially an aspect of something) which is beautiful. But if righteounſeſs be ſuch a beauty-ſpot in thine eyes novv, hovv is it that vvickedneſs vvas ſo cloſely ſtuck to by thee before.
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A natural mark on a person's skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman's face.
Similar: beauty mark
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A patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty.
The Deformity, and Filthyneſs of Svvine, make them the Beauty-ſpot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.
Similar: beauty mark, mouche
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Synonym of speculum (“a bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female”).
Similar: speculum
- A place noted for its beauty, especially its natural scenery. Moreover they [mountains] bestow necessaries not in mere naked sufficiency, but in forms which make hill-streams and waterfalls rank among the beauty-spots of this beautiful world: […]
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noun natural mark on a person’s skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman’s face
| Español | lunar |
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| 한국어 | 애교점 aegyojeom, 미인점 miinjeom, 매력점 maeryeokjeom |
| 中文 | 美人痣 měirénzhì, 痣 zhì |
| Português | sinal |
| Français | grain de beauté |
| Italiano | neo |
| עברית | נְקֻדַּת חֵן n'quddát ẖen |
noun place noted for its beauty, especially its natural scenery
| Tiếng Việt | thắng cảnh |
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title = {beauty spot},
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