beaux arts

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beaux arts Meaning of "beaux arts"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the study and creation of visual works of art

Usage(s):

  • San Francisco is a self-consciously civilized place, pleased by its reasonable scale and unreasonable hills, proud of the slightly loopy beaux arts buildings and the great swaths .
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