beauty queen
noun
: a beautiful and glamorous woman or girl
specifically
: a winner of a beauty contest
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every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen
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As depicted in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, José, attending Southern Illinois University on a swimming scholarship, met blond beauty queen Mary Louise Andersen, a lively communications major two years his senior who everyone called Kitty.
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Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2025
The kindergartner was following the footsteps of her beauty queen mother, Patsy, a former Miss West Virginia, frequently participating in child pageants.
—Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Even by big-city standards, the grisly shotgun murders of former beauty queen Kitty, 47, and wealthy music executive Jose, 45, as the couple watched TV in their Beverly Hills home in August of 1989 was a shocking crime.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2025
The kindergartner was following the footsteps of her beauty queen mother, Patsy, a former Miss West Virginia, frequently participating in child pageants.
—Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Even by big-city standards, the grisly shotgun murders of former beauty queen Kitty, 47, and wealthy music executive Jose, 45, as the couple watched TV in their Beverly Hills home in August of 1989 was a shocking crime.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beauty%20queen. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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