elegance

[ el-i-guhns ]

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noun

elegant quality: elegance of dress.
something elegant; a refinement.

Origin of elegance

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

Other words from elegance

hy·per·el·e·gance, noun
o·ver·el·e·gance, noun
su·per·el·e·gance, noun

Words Nearby elegance

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How to use elegance in a sentence

There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.
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He would have probably done both in much the same way: with elegance and restraint, yet radically.
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This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.
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Bratis, who trained in Athens, creates pieces of “femininity and pure elegance without artifice.”
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England was almost as good, if mostly in the elegance of their defense.
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She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.
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After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold Bennett
He was distinguished for personal courage, as well as taste for elegance and splendor, whence he was called the munificent.
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He wrote verses with elegance in French, Spanish and Italian, and was a polisher of his native language in a barbarous age.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
The elegance of his stature and the pensive melancholy of his classic features invested him with a peculiar power of fascination.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for elegance

elegance

elegancy

/ (ˈɛlɪɡəns) /

nounplural -gances or -gancies

dignified grace in appearance, movement, or behaviour
good taste in design, style, arrangement, etc

something elegant; a refinement

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