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elegance

[ el-i-guhns ]

noun

  1. elegant quality:

    elegance of dress.

  2. something elegant; a refinement.


elegance

/ ˈɛlɪɡəns /

noun

  1. dignified grace in appearance, movement, or behaviour
  2. good taste in design, style, arrangement, etc
  3. something elegant; a refinement


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Other Words From

  • hyper·ele·gance noun
  • over·ele·gance noun
  • super·ele·gance noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of elegance1

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

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Example Sentences

There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.

He would have probably done both in much the same way: with elegance and restraint, yet radically.

This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.

Bratis, who trained in Athens, creates pieces of “femininity and pure elegance without artifice.”

England was almost as good, if mostly in the elegance of their defense.

She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.

After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.

He was distinguished for personal courage, as well as taste for elegance and splendor, whence he was called the munificent.

He wrote verses with elegance in French, Spanish and Italian, and was a polisher of his native language in a barbarous age.

The elegance of his stature and the pensive melancholy of his classic features invested him with a peculiar power of fascination.

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