CYNOSURE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Cynosure

... the very midst of orchards and gardens; terrace above terrace, but still with a great flush of foliage between; it is a pity it ever grew into a fashionable watering-place; though, even now, it is not too late to amend. Like some cynosure of neighbouring eyes, fed from her gentle youth upon all the sights and sounds of rural life, she is too beautiful to put on the airs and graces of a belle of the court. Let her go back to her country ways—her walks in the village lanes—her scampers across the fields; she will be more really captivating ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various