arbiter elegantiae

American  

[ahr-bi-ter ey-le-gahn-tee-ahy, ahr-bi-ter el-uh-gan-shee-ee] / ˈɑr bɪˌtɛr ˌeɪ lɛˈgɑn tiˌaɪ, ˈɑr bɪ tər ˌɛl əˈgæn ʃiˌi /

English arbiter elegantiarum

noun

Latin.

1. a judge of elegance or matters of taste.

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Project Gutenberg