Belle - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |bel|  American pronunciation of the word belle
Brit.  |bel|  British pronunciation of the word belle

noun

- a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
she was the belle of the ball

Extra examples

...the acts of espionage on behalf of the Confederacy carried on by Belle Boyd and Rose Greenhow...

...a faded Southern belle tiresomely vaporing about all the handsome beaux she had in her long-ago youth...

There is an old song, to the tune of La Belle Catharine.

Word forms

noun
singular: belle
plural: belles
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