Meaning of beauty spot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thing (especially an aspect of something) which is beautiful.
   archaic
2. A natural mark on a person's skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman's face.
   archaic
3. A patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty.
   archaic, historical
4. Synonym of speculum (“a bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female”).
   archaic
5. A place noted for its beauty, especially its natural scenery.
   British

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Examples

“But if righteounſeſs be ſuch a beauty-ſpot in thine eyes novv, hovv is it that vvickedneſs vvas ſo cloſely ſtuck to by thee before.”

“I need not deſcribe to thee her hand and arm. VVhen thou ſavveſt her, I took notice that thy eyes dvvelt upon them, vvhenever thou couldſt ſpare them from that beauty-ſpot of vvonders, her face.”

“The Deformity, and Filthyneſs of Svvine, make them the Beauty-ſpot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.”

“Moreover they [mountains] bestow necessaries not in mere naked sufficiency, but in forms which make hill-streams and waterfalls rank among the beauty-spots of this beautiful world: […]”

“The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.”

“Another local beauty spot is Lustleigh Cleave, where the River Bovey flows through an avenue of trees.”

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