"having beauty, pleasing to the senses," mid-15c., from beauty + -ous. In modern times mostly limited in use to poetry and displaced elsewhere by beautiful. Related: Beauteously; beauteousness.
Beaufort scale
beau-ideal
Beaujolais
beau-monde
beaut
beauteous
beautician
beautification
beautiful
beautify
beauty
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