A Southern belle (derived from the French word belle, 'beautiful') is an archetype for a young woman of the American Old South's upper class.
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“Archaeologists have uncovered six-thousand-year-old clay tablets from southern Babylonia that describe in great detail how the adults of that community found the younger generation to be insolent and disobedient.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
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