elegance

nounattested in dialogue

//ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns//

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

noun

1
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
The bride was elegance personified.
2
Restraint and grace of style.
The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
3
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
4
datedA refinement or luxury.
As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.

Etymology

From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).

Forms

plural: elegances

electronic · Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.electronics · The study and use of electrical devices that operate by…electrons · The digital or electronic version of a document.

elegance · Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

elegant · Characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace,…element · One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which…elementary · Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of…

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