beauty queen en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) The female winner of a beauty contest.
2014, Elle Lee Strauss, Clockwise […] up along the wall, in cliques. The brains along one side, the artsies in the corner, the beauty queens near the punch bowl so everyone would have to look at how pretty they were when they got a drink, […]
[A]s a moose-hunting former beauty queen, [Sarah] Palin is a kooky character – precisely the sort of person a producer would home in on at the auditions like a dog sniffing meat.
2009, Charlie Brooker, “In which Ethnicity is Admired for the Sake of It, Christianity is Misrepresented, and Dale Winton Threatens to Bring It on the Wall”, in The Hell of It All, London: Faber and Faber for Guardian Books, →ISBN, page 195:Having been a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen, Birdee is remembered by everyone and pitied for her embarrassment on "ambush" television.
2010, Melvin Donalson, Black Directors in Hollywood, page 311:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| beauty queens | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
pl królowa piękności (winner of a beauty contest) · my အလှမယ် (winner of a beauty contest) · da skønhedsdronning (winner of a beauty contest) · th นางงาม (winner of a beauty contest) · fi kauneuskuningatar (winner of a beauty contest) · nb skjønnhetsdronning (winner of a beauty contest) · sv skönhetsdrottning (winner of a beauty contest) · fr miss (winner of a beauty contest) · vi hoa hậu (winner of a beauty contest) · he מלכת יופי (winner of a beauty contest) · it reginetta di bellezza (winner of a beauty contest) · sw malkia wa urembo (winner of a beauty contest) · de Schönheitskönigin (winner of a beauty contest) · fr reine de beauté (winner of a beauty contest)