beauty queen

noun

: a beautiful and glamorous woman or girl
specifically : a winner of a beauty contest

Examples of beauty queen in a Sentence

every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen
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One of the most notorious cold cases of all time, the child beauty queen's bizarre disappearance and murder has inspired countless conspiracy theories. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024 Netflix’s new documentary Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey reexamines the case all these years later just to reaffirm the same conclusion: there’s still no indication of who killed the young beauty queen or why. Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 26 Nov. 2024 On the day after Christmas in 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey woke up to discover their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenét, a child beauty queen, was missing from the family's Boulder, Colorado, home. Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024 At the time, she was brought out as a multi-talented beauty queen from British Columbia who was working in public relations and had a love for the arts and the outdoors. Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beauty queen 

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of beauty queen was in 1893

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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beauty%20queen. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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