"belle laide" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From French, belle (“beautiful woman”) + laide (“ugly”).",
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          "text": "Perhaps her looks were not considered downright repulsive. But she was not even what in those years was called une belle laide, being neither feminine, nor soft, nor submissive.",
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        "A woman who is attractive despite not being conventionally beautiful."
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