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Sleeping Beauty

noun

  1. a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  2. (italics) the fairy tale itself.
  3. (italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.


“Sleeping Beauty”

  1. A fairy tale from the collection of Charles Perrault, about a beautiful princess cast into a deep sleep through a jealous fairy's curse. Sleeping Beauty is awakened at last by the kiss of a prince.


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Example Sentences

What were your first impressions of Maleficent when you first watched Sleeping Beauty?

Braun is already milking high end fairy tale spoofs, with a naughty version of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty coming soon.

Or as Ahrenberg says with delight, “We have awoken Sleeping Beauty.”

It was, one of the inventorying experts said, like “stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty.”

The dark telling of Sleeping Beauty hits theaters this summer.

She was the Sleeping Beauty in the wood, who had woken up and remembered nothing, and could never recover from the long trance.

And a palace indeed it is, which might suit the Sleeping Beauty herself.

This was the palace of the sleeping beauty to which he had penetrated.

This ballet is far weaker than The Sleeping Beauty—no doubt about it.

It was only luck that it was a prince who awakened the Sleeping Beauty.

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