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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Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or belle:
“I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)