[f. as prec. + SPOT.]
1. A spot or patch placed upon the face by ladies in the method of adornment formerly fashionable: originally intended to heighten by contrast the charm of some neighboring feature; fig. a foil.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 123. The setting of every hair … the placing of every beauty-spot.
1701. Grew, Cosmol. Sacra, III. iii. 102 (J.). The Deformity, and Filthyness of Swine, makes them the Beauty-spot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., I. (1721), 45. Their Black Patches, which in former Times have been taken for Beauty-Spots.
1864. H. Spencer, Illustr. Univ. Progr., 90. From painted faces to beauty-spots.
2. gen. A feature or place of special beauty.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 110. If righteousness be such a beauty-spot in thine eyes.
1879. Chr. Rossetti, Seek & Find, 91. Hill-streams and waterfalls rank among the beauty-spots of this beautiful world.
