beauté du diable (Fr.), that overpowering beauty for the sake of which men fling everything away.
beaux yeux (Fr.), fine eyes: a pretty woman.
bécasse (Fr.), a woodcock, an idiot.
beccaccia (It.), a woodcock.
béchamel (Fr.), a kind of sauce made with a little flour in cream.
beegah, begah, beegha (Hind.), a Hindoo square measure, varying from ⅓ to ⅔ acre.
bel air (Fr.), fine deportment.
bel esprit (Fr.), a fine genius: a person of wit or genius;—pl. beaux esprits, men of wit: gay spirits.
bel étage (Fr.), the best story, the first floor.
bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube (L.), let others wage wars; do thou, lucky Austria, make marriages.