eau-coup /'bauku:; NAmE 'bou-/ det. [US, informal) many or a lot jB ^          :         You can spend beaucoup bucks

(= a lot of money) on software.        B^^50

the Beau-fort scale /'baofat skeil; Mm£ ‘boufart/ noun [sing.] a range of numbers used for measuring how strongly the wind is blowing. The lowest number 0 means that there is no wind and the highest number 12 means that there is a hurricane (= a violent storm with very strong winds).

fj0 M 12 it) ; The storm measured 10 on the Beaufort scale. &IX j*l ^ }$ M M $ ffl'J i: A 10 *10 MilfdlJI From Sir Francis Beaufort, the English admiral who invented it.

15$r •         ( Sir Francis Beaufort ) 0

Beau-jo-lais /'bau3alei; NAmE .boi^a'lei/ noun [pi. Beau- jo-lais) [c, U] a light wine, usually red, from the Beaujo- lais district of France If        $?-[§:

beaut /bjuit/ noun, adj., exclamation ■ noun [NAmE, AustralE, NZE, informal) an excellent or beautiful person or thing  A (     ) ; HA;

uadj., exclamation [AustralE, informal) excellent; very goodMF&fj;

beauteous /'bjuitias/ adj. (literary) beautiful

beautician /bjui'tijn/ noun a person, usually a woman, whose job is to give beauty treatments to the face and body

beau-ti-ful o-w/bjuitifi/ adj.

1 having beauty; pleasing to the senses or to the mind

HMW; H£?f$: a beautiful woman/face/baby/voice/ poem/smell/evening M %          A A / ffi ?L / ^ J L ; H fc!> £Kl

0 beautiful countryside/weather/ music        H£F&iJA^; H£!>$J       2 very good

or skilful jB £F #J; tB ; *5       :         What beautiful

timing!

beautiful ly o-w /-bjintifii/ adv.

1 in a beautiful way =j|        ; H itk; 211Ufa:          She

sings beautifully. M fifc iB n/r 0 o a beautifully decorated house ^ i|r II ft H A 2 very well; in a pleasing way IB ; 4- A it jE Ufa: It’s all working out beautifully.

beautify /'bjuitifai/ verb (beau-ti-fies, beau-ti-fy-ing, beau-ti-fied, beau-ti-fied) [VN] to make sb/sth beautiful

or more beautiful Hffc ; filfLHM beauty 0-w /-bjuiti/ noun [pi. -ies)

1 [U] the quality of being pleasing to the senses or to the mind H; H M: the beauty of the sunset/of poetry/ of his singing ^ 0 /    / fife 0 a woman of

great beauty A H A ❖ The woods were designated an area of outstanding natural beauty. it $ W M |l| aE I I lifKo 0 beauty products/treatment (= intended to make a person more beautiful) pp ; H# 2 [C] a person or thing that is beautiful H A; HAWAII: She had been a beauty in her day. N’H'Nt Ac 3 [C] an excellent example of its type lift          MA: That last goal was a beauty! ||fk

j&fKl 4 [C] a pleasing feature ; ft &

SHU advantage : One of the beauties of living here is that it’s so peaceful.          — JIAt. 0

The project will require very little work to start up; that’s the beauty of it.          ftWL#

ITiTOl beauty is in the eye of the beholder [saying) people all have different ideas about what is beautiful tfABBMtBM;         beauty

is only skin-'deep (saying) how a person looks is less important than their character     3t—3ft H^b

.Beauty and the ’Beast noun 1 a traditional story about a young girl who saves a large ugly creature from a magic spell by her love. He becomes a hand­some prince and they get married. HA-lflf# (

) 2 [informal, humorous) two people of whom one is much more attractive than the other HA

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