beau ideal

[Fr. beau idéal. ] 1. A faultle ideal; an ideal of beauty, in which the excellences of all individuals are conceived as combined, while their defects are omitted. 2. The highest conceivable perfection of anything, whether beautiful or not. "A discu ion on the beau - ideal of the liver, lungs, kidneys, ., as of the human face divine, sounds strange in our ears."-Darwin: The Descent of Man, vol. i. (1871), pt. 1, ch. iv., p. 109. beau-monde, s. [Fr. beau fine, and monde = world.) The fashionable world. "She courted the beau - monde to-night."-Prior.