southern belle
Gracious Georgia hostess
A southern belle is a young woman from the American South who embodies traditional ideals of femininity, charm, and gracious hospitality.
The term evokes antebellum imagery—hoop skirts, magnolias, genteel manners—and carries connotations of both elegance and outdated gender expectations: She played the southern belle at the garden party.
Belle is French for beautiful.
- parasolHandheld shade device
- white glovesPale formal handwear
- corsetBoned waist-shaping undergarment
- debutanteFormally introduced young woman
- fanAdmirer or air mover
antebellum · Gone with the Wind · drawl · cotillion · beauty pageant · charming · lace · magnolia · socialite · hoop skirt · plantation · landed gentry · gown · crinoline · bonnet · graceful · pearls · Civil War
southern belleYankee
Person from northeastern states
New Yorker · Midwesterner · city girl · city slicker · carpetbagger
southern bellecountry bumpkin
Naive person from countryside
white trash · trailer trash · tomboy · hick · frontier woman
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