| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| beau ideal |
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| SYLLABICATION: | beau i·de·al |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b   -d   l |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. beau ideals
1. The concept of perfect beauty. 2. An idealized type or model: the beau ideal of a high-ranking army officer. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French beau idéal : beau, perfect + idéal, ideal.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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