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Definition of Sleeping beauty

1. Noun. Fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss.

2. Noun. A person who is sleeping soundly.

3. Noun. A potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play.

Definition of Sleeping beauty

1. Proper noun. A fairy tale originally titled ''La Belle au bois dormant'' by Charles Perrault. ¹

2. Proper noun. The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince. ¹

3. Proper noun. (genetics) A transposon used in genetic engineering ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Sleeping beauty

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1. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"sleeping beauty in the wood and other stories. Lansing. Fairy tales, v. 2. ... Briar Rose is a simpler version of the same sleeping beauty in the wood. ..."

2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1872)
"As for the sleeping beauty, she is known to everybody, figuring as she does in those ... You say that the story of the sleeping beauty, as told by Charles ..."

3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"As for the sleeping beauty, she is known to everybody, figuring as she does in those tales of Mother Goose, which I, by no means a chicken, read when I was ..."

4. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1903)
"BRIAR ROSE, OR THE sleeping beauty Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. Every day they said to each other, " Oh, would that we had a child! ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"550 THE sleeping beauty SLEEP on, and dream of Heaven awhile- Tho' shut so close thy laughing eyes, Thy rosy lips still wear a smile An<J move, ..."

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