Sleeping Beauty
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.
(italics) the fairy tale itself.
(italics) a ballet (1889) by Tchaikovsky.
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How to use Sleeping Beauty in a sentence
What were your first impressions of Maleficent when you first watched Sleeping Beauty?
The ‘Maleficent’ Screenwriter Also Wrote ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ | Kevin Fallon | June 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBraun is already milking high end fairy tale spoofs, with a naughty version of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty coming soon.
The Art of Smutty Spoofs: Porn Parodies Aren’t a Joke Anymore | Aurora Snow | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr 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.
Macklemore Apologizes Over Grammy Win; Quentin Tarantino Sues Gawker | Culture Team | January 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
She was the Sleeping Beauty in the wood, who had woken up and remembered nothing, and could never recover from the long trance.
Overlooked | Maurice BaringAnd a palace indeed it is, which might suit the Sleeping Beauty herself.
Harper's Young People, July 12, 1881 | VariousThis was the palace of the Sleeping Beauty to which he had penetrated.
The Haunting of Low Fennel | Sax RohmerThis ballet is far weaker than The Sleeping Beauty—no doubt about it.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyIt was only luck that it was a prince who awakened the Sleeping Beauty.
Hints to Pilgrims | Charles Stephen Brooks
Cultural definitions for “Sleeping Beauty”
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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