green-eyed beauty
- noun
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belleza de ojos verdes
- "Also, like Holly Golightly, the red-haired, green-eyed beauty had begun life more modestly, the daughter of a groom on the Kentucky estate of Henry J. Schlesinger, who became her first husband.
Examples
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Many admired her as a green-eyed beauty with a unique charm that drew everyone in.
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The green-eyed beauty on the cover of the magazine captured the attention of readers everywhere.
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She was known as the green-eyed beauty of the town, with her striking eyes and radiant smile.
Synonyms
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3.0
A very attractive woman that many people find pleasing to look at
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6.5
A good-looking person, often a woman, who many people notice
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7.7
A very attractive woman who gets admiring looks
How Beautiful
Surface Forms
Morphology
green-eyed + beauty
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'green-eyed' denotes having green eyes and 'beauty' denotes an attractive person, so a learner who knows those constituents can infer it means an attractive person with green eyes. This adjective+noun descriptive pattern is common and follows regular English compounding, making the meaning readily predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Green-eyed beauty comes from the clear image of a woman with rare, bright green eyes. Artists and poets long called green eyes mysterious and attractive, so the phrase means a woman admired for her green eyes.