Beauty spoken of in ringing tones? (5)
I believe the answer is:
belle
'beauty' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'spoken of in ringing tones?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'ringing' could be 'bell' (bell ringing is a kind of ringing) and 'bell' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for belle that I've seen before include "Beautiful woman - of the ball?" , "dish" , "Reigning beauty" , "Girl who's fetching" , "Beautiful girl" .)