An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept.
1Simplicity of arrangement is always the beau ideal of the mechanical engineer.
2Piccinni was the very beau ideal of a father and a husband.
3Quietness is its beau ideal of all that is lovely and excellent.
4He was in many ways our beau ideal - the ultimate New Yorker.
5His beau ideal, Grandison, turns out the most impossible prig in English literature.
6He was the first of our unfortunate sex who had reached beau ideal.
7The very beau ideal of a wild Irish youth was my friend Pat.
8As he rode on thus, he was the beau ideal of a cavalier.
9We assured him that they struck us as our beau ideal of bulls.
10She was thus quite the beau ideal of a witch.
11Stevenson approached close to the beau ideal of epistolary art.
12Carrick is the very beau ideal of a seaside house.
13Professor Dawson was Tom's beau ideal of all that a university instructor should be.
14He is, in fine, the very beau ideal of a "ladies' man!"
15In certain social groups the world's champion prize fighter is the beau ideal of success.
16The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to mother English.
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