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  2. Anastrophe - Wikipedia

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    For example, the name of the City Beautiful urbanist movement emphasises "beautiful". Similarly, in "This is the forest primeval", from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, the emphasis is on "primeval". If the emphasis that comes from anastrophe is not an issue, the synonym inversion is perfectly suitable.

  3. Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a ripe fruit (of its time) was considered beautiful, whereas a young woman trying to appear older or an older woman trying to appear younger would not be considered beautiful. In Attic Greek, hōraios had many meanings, including "youthful" and "ripe old age". [25] Another classical term in use to describe beauty was pulchrum . [26]

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    eager or intent on, example: he is keen to get to work on time. desirable or just right, example: "peachy keen" – "That's a pretty keen outfit you're wearing." (slang going out of common usage) keeper a curator or a goalkeeper: one that keeps (as a gamekeeper or a warden) a type of play in American football ("Quarterback keeper")

  5. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    One example being that humans are argued to find beautiful and prefer landscapes which were good habitats in the ancestral environment. Another example is that body symmetry and proportion are important aspects of physical attractiveness which may be due to this indicating good health during body growth.

  6. Southern belle - Wikipedia

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    For example, Sallie Ward, who was born into the planter class of Kentucky in the Antebellum South, was called a Southern belle. [ 3 ] Dick Pope Sr. , promoter of Florida tourism, played an important role in popularizing the archetypal image. [ 4 ]

  7. Belles-lettres - Wikipedia

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    Belles-lettres (French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  9. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    Since Mahayana philosophy predicates that genuine understanding is reached through experience rather than words, wabi-sabi may best be appreciated non-verbally. Although the wabi and sabi concepts are religious in origin, actual usage of the words in Japanese is often quite casual, in keeping with the syncretic nature of Japanese belief.