Etymology

beauty spot

beau·ty spot

Today it means: A thing (especially an aspect of something) which is beautiful. Full definition →

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The story

From beauty (noun) + spot (noun). Some uses of sense 1 (“thing which is beautiful”) are figurative uses of sense 1.2 (“patch on the face to heighten beauty”).

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