0 a beautiful and attractive woman or one who is beautifully dressed --
The fashionable belles and beauties were not even aware of her existence, being too entirely absorbed in their yearly husband-hunt to think of any one but themselves and their prey.
Philippa was, as heretofore, the belle, looking more than usually lovely in a light gossamer dress of white and pink.
No belle ever kept her clothes in better order than these were.
About these young belles gathered the densest throng of all the crowd.
