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noun

elegant quality: elegance of dress.

something elegant; a refinement.

Origin:
1500–10; < Middle French < Latin ēlegantia choiceness. See elegant, -ance

Related forms

hy·per·el·e·gance, noun

o·ver·el·e·gance, noun

su·per·el·e·gance, noun

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Your zealous spirit, your natural elegance and charm, and your bountiful warmth will be deeply missed and never forgotten.

His elegance consoled me, and his refusal made him all the dearer.

Technocratic language and hasty writing have replaced elegance and reflection.

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Your zealous spirit, your natural elegance and charm, and your bountiful warmth will be deeply missed and never forgotten.

His elegance consoled me, and his refusal made him all the dearer.

Technocratic language and hasty writing have replaced elegance and reflection.

Apart from a propensity to pounce on prey, cats' aloof elegance has long made them the choice for animal companionship.

The elegance of the perfect parabolic drop of a bias-cut gown is no less elegant than the perfection of a beautiful mathematical.

We were drawn to its casual elegance and comfortable.

Sadly, the pure genius of the story and the simple elegance of the gameplay throw the game's flaws into sharp contrast.

Her elegance and generous heart will long be remembered by all those who knew her.

The elegance of its syntax is unmatched by any other numerical programming software.

Onfield and off he had an aristocrat's insouciant elegance.

It does so with complex, mathematical formulas, and with considerable elegance.

Occam's razor illustrate the brevity and elegance of scientific truth.

Combine organic and architectural elements for streamlined elegance.

They also feature a natural wood finish and a certain elegance in their construction.

However, neither elegance nor voice should appear in a top-10 list of writing less badly.

Typically the best designs combine elegance with utility.

Women are judged on both speed and overall elegance of the finished result.

Instead, mirrors add an airy elegance as they reflect light.

It's written with a certain reverence for the elegance in many of the solutions to the challenges the team.

I've had to forgo the elegance of multiple clauses and construct brief sentences that nevertheless flow.

But the administrative elegance of such a system is not so immediately apparent.

Muted earth tones add stately elegance and in select rooms, shuttered doors open to private balconies.

The elegance of this system is that it bootstraps a seemingly unique human talent to an ancient mental process.

Microbursts of information may not have the elegance of formal literature, but they are more efficient.

Again, there is an elegance in the small bits of design on display here.

These threats to validity refer to more than elegance in metrics and statistics.

But overall, the camera shoots few things horribly, and many things with elegance.

If you can't convey the sheer elegance of what calculus is then you have no right to be teaching it.

It's written with a certain reverence for the elegance in many of the solutions to the challenges the team faced.

Crafted from premium materials, inside and out, that radiate elegance with a dramatic.

Hillis's rolling-ball clocks have a gratifying elegance that is sort of a tactile onomatopoeia.

There is an elegance to his thought processes that can be seen in everything he does.

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World English Dictionary

elegance or elegancy (ˈɛlɪɡəns)

—n , pl -gances, -gancies
1.	dignified grace in appearance, movement, or behaviour
2.	good taste in design, style, arrangement, etc
3.	something elegant; a refinement

elegancy or elegancy

—n

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Word Origin & History

elegance

c.1500, tasteful, correct, harmonious, choice, of speech or prose, from Fr. élégance, from L. elegantia, from elegantem (see elegant). Meaning refined luxury is from 1797.

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