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Southern belle
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southern belle
English
Alternative forms
en southern belle
Noun
en US A beautiful, archetypal (especially upper class) white woman of the Southern United States.
en Scarlet O'Hara metonymy
w:Blake Bailey 'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/tennessee-williams-by-john-lahr.html 14 November 2014 [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible. https://web.archive.org/web/20250812205801/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/books/review/tennessee-williams-by-john-lahr.html 12 August 2025
thumb|A southern belle.
Translations
American female archetype
German: de Südstaatenschönheit
Spanish: es belleza sureña f
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