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Line of beauty

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(Fine Arts) an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; - differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth).

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Phoebus, who had seen nothing in the line of beauty, since he left the village maids of Queue-en-Brie, was intoxicated with Fleur-de-Lys, which imparted to our officer so eager and gallant an air, that his peace was immediately made.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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