#137 belle

belle- a beautiful girl or woman; the most attractive or admired woman at a function- the belle of the ball

- C17 from French- feminine of beau

What could she, a thirty-year-old American history professor brought up in the postfeminist age, possibly have in common with a Southern belle from a previous century?

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