English Dictionary

belle laide

名詞

A woman who is attractive despite not being conventionally beautiful.

日本語の意味

従来の美しさの基準に合致しないが、どこか魅力があり魅力的な女性。 / 一般的な美の定義には当てはまらないが、個性的な魅力を持つ女性。

At the gallery opening, she was unmistakably a belle laide, drawing people in with her unusual features and magnetic presence.

ギャラリーのオープニングで、彼女はまさに伝統的な美の基準には当てはまらないが魅力的な女性で、その独特な顔立ちと魅力的な存在感で人々を惹きつけていた。

意味（1）

A woman who is attractive despite not being conventionally beautiful.

Perhaps her looks were not considered downright repulsive. But she was not even what in those years was called une belle laide, being neither feminine, nor soft, nor submissive.

belles laides （ plural ）