beauty vs spectacle

beauty

noun
  • An excellent or egregious example of something. 

  • The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. 

  • Someone who is beautiful. 

  • Something that is particularly good or pleasing. 

  • The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. 

  • Beauty treatment; cosmetology. 

intj
  • Cool! 

  • Thanks! 

adj
  • Of high quality, well done. 

spectacle

noun
  • An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation. 

  • A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm. 

  • The brille of a snake. 

  • An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc. 

  • An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, worn to assist sight, or to protect the eyes from bright light. 

How often have the words beauty and spectacle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )