belle

noun

1. A popular and attractive girl or woman

noun

1. A period of high artistic or cultural development

French noun phrase

1. Jolie laide

geographical name

1. River in northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota flowing northeast and east into the Cheyenne River
2. City on the Belle Fourche River in western South Dakota located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the geographic center of the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii population 5594

geographical name

1. City on the southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in southeastern Florida population 17,467

geographical name

1. Channel between the northern tip of Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador connecting the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the Labrador Sea

French phrase

1. Under the beautiful star in the open air at night under the stars

French quotation from {i_link|Alain Chartier|Chartier:b}

1. The beautiful lady without mercy

noun phrase

1. The most beautiful and popular woman at a dance, party, etc.

   "She was the belle of the ball."

noun

1. A writer of belles lettres

   "Nikos Demou was a prosperous advertising executive in Athens with his own firm until runaway success with a series of books, essays and articles on the Greek identity crisis enabled him to earn a more than comfortable living as a journalist and belletrist."