beauty queen

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Noun

beauty queen (plural beauty queens)

2. (idiomatic) The female winner of a beauty contest.
   • 2009, Charlie Brooker, “In which Ethnicity is Admired for the Sake of It, Christianity is Misrepresented, and Dale Winton Threatens to Bring It on the Wall”, in The Hell of It All, London: Faber and Faber for Guardian Books, →ISBN, page 195:

     [A]s a moose-hunting former beauty queen, [Sarah] Palin is a kooky character – precisely the sort of person a producer would home in on at the auditions like a dog sniffing meat.

   • 2010, Melvin Donalson, Black Directors in Hollywood, page 311:

     Having been a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen, Birdee is remembered by everyone and pitied for her embarrassment on "ambush" television.

   • 2014, Elle Lee Strauss, Clockwise

     […] up along the wall, in cliques. The brains along one side, the artsies in the corner, the beauty queens near the punch bowl so everyone would have to look at how pretty they were when they got a drink, […]

Translations

winner of a beauty contest

• Burmese: အလှမယ် (a.hla.mai)
• Danish: skønhedsdronning c
• Finnish: kauneuskuningatar (fi)
• French: miss (fr) f, reine de beauté (fr) f
• German: Schönheitskönigin (de) f
• Hebrew: מלכת יופי (he) f pl (malkát yófi)
• Italian: reginetta di bellezza f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjønnhetsdronning m or f

• Polish: królowa piękności f
• Swahili: malkia wa urembo
• Swedish: skönhetsdrottning (sv) c
• Thai: นางงาม (th) (naang-ngaam)
• Vietnamese: hoa hậu (vi)