belle
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From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
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belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
- (dated) A fellow gay man.[1]
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beautiful woman
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- “belle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25
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belle
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belle
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belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
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(girlfriend):
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Further reading edit
- “belle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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belle
- inflection of bellen:
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belle
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belle f
Latin edit
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From bellus (“pretty, handsome”).
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bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)
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- “belle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “belle”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- belle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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belle
Old English edit
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From Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.
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belle f
- bell
- bellan hringan
- to ring a bell
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
- Se dēofol wearp ānne stān tō þǣre bellan þæt hēo eall tōsprang.
- The Devil threw a rock at the bell so it broke into pieces.
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Declension of belle (weak)
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belle