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Definition Sleeping Beauty in British English

Sleeping Beauty noun

noun

From the children’s story Sleeping Beauty in which a beautiful young girl goes to sleep for 100 years and is woken by a prince when he kisses her.

1

used for referring to someone who has been sleeping for a long time

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Definition Sleeping Beauty in British English