Southern belle
Colloquialism for a debutante in the Southern planter class / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the archetype. For other uses, see Southern belle (disambiguation).
"Southern belle" (from French belle 'beautiful') is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman.[1]