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A beauty. The Belle of the room. The most beautiful lady in the room (French).
La belle France. A common French phrase applied to France, as “Merry England” is to our own country.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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