arbiter elegantiae

English ar·bi·ter e·le·gan·ti·a·rum

[ahr-bi-ter ey-le-gahn-tee-ahy, ahr-bi-ter el-uh-gan-shee-ee]

noun

Latin.

1. a judge of elegance or matters of taste.

Example Sentences

In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline.

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White and trembling, the noble was not now the exquisite Arbiter Elegantiae; nor the imperturbable Augustian.

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