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Meaning of Southern belle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A beautiful, archetypal (especially upper class) white woman of the Southern United States.

US

Equivalents

Deutsch Südstaatenschönheit

Español belleza sureña

Examples

“[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

southern black tit Southern blot Southern blot analysis southern bottlenose whale Southern brawl southern brown bandicoot