Read full poem →Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred Lord t' assault a gentle Belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,
Dictionary Entry
An attractive woman.
In a Sentence
“In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. belleisle belleepoque belledame bellearti bellevue bellebelle labelle southern
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Poetry examples for “belle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred lord t'assault a gentle belle?
Oh, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored,
Read full poem →Marie Louise Lallemand
n’es-ce pas que je suis belle
cheri? les anglais m’aiment
Read full poem →Bowling Green Dundee Fruitville La Belle Manatee Punta Gorda Winter Tien
Bradenton Dunedin Gasparilla La Costa Island Marco Isiand Redington Beach Zephyrhills
Read full poem →He play'd an ancient ditty, long since mute,
In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans mercy:"
Close to her ear touching the melody;--
Read full poem →And, just as humour rose or fell,
By turns a slattern or a belle.
'Tis true she dress'd with modern grace,—
Read full poem →And, just as humour rose or fell,
By turns a slattern or a belle;
’Tis true she dress’d with modern grace,
Read full poem →Josephine, or more commonly Phiny, a former
belle whom Anner ’Lizer’s superior charms had
deposed, could not lose this opportunity to have