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Bukuroshe
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| The quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Bukuroshe a beautiful person, especially a woman. Beauty late 13c., from Anglo-Norm. beute , O.Fr. biauté (12c., "beauty,seductiveness, beautiful person," Mod.Fr. beauté ), earlier beltet ,from V.L. bellitatem (nom. bellitas ) "state of being handsome,"from L. bellus "pretty, handsome, charming," in classical L. usedespecially of women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men,perhaps from PIE *dw-eye- and related to bonus "good," bene "well." Famously defined by Stendhal as la promesse de bonheur "the promise of happiness." Replaced O.E. wlite . Concrete meaning"a beautiful woman" is first recorded late 15c. Beauty sleep "sleepbefore midnight" is attested by 1850. |
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Bukuroshe, Beautiful
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