Belles
[belz]
Examples
- Cannot you imagine with what unwilling feelings the former belles of the house of Rushworth did many a time repair to this chapel? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It seems that three titled belles in the first row had sat down predetermined that a _bonne d'enfants_ should not give them lessons in English. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His presence was such a surprise: I had not once thought of expecting him, though I knew he filled the chair of Belles Lettres in the college. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His walk must be belles-lettres. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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