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Beauteous

//ˈbjuːtɪəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    beautiful. formal, literary, poetic

    "VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day, And make me trauaile forth without my cloake, To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way, Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous.

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