elegance
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| —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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Elegance
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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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Example sentences
Unlike physics biology can not rely too long on elegance, beauty, and formal clarity.
Even more remarkable is how they achieved their seriousness of purpose with elegance, wit, and beauty.
Surround your ceremony with the elegance and beauty of nature.
Climbers speak often of elegance--elegance of climbing style, elegance of route.
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