[
US
/ˈbɛɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈɛl/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛl/ ]
NOUN
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a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
she was the belle of the ball
How To Use belle In A Sentence
- Single radiolabelled colonies harbouring plasmids with inserts bigger than 1000 bp were analysed further.
- Measures designed to promote and protect local educational values could be labelled as ‘barriers to trade’.
- Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way. Kindness of strangers
- The libeller adds that he suspects that Fontenelle never performed the duties of a Christian but out of contempt for A Philosophical Dictionary
- A libeller may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or the amputation of the ears.
- If the libellee does not appear and the court considers the notice defective or insufficient, it may order further notice. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- He made a motion concerning libellers on 19 Feb 1585, and was put in charge of the ensuing committee.
- In all libels for divorce where the cause alleged is adultery, and where the adverse party does not appear, or is defaulted, the person alleged to be particeps criminis with the libellee may, in the discretion of the court, be allowed to appear and contest the libel. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- Most were libellers and some became editors.
- Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud. Dombey and Son