southern belle

plural southern belles

1. alternativeAlternative form of Southern belle.

plural Southern belles · alternative southern belle

1. USA beautiful, archetypal (especially upper class) white woman of the Southern United States.

   [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

   2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: Scarlet O'Hara