elegance
Origin of elegance
1Other 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
A table on either side can add a symmetrical elegance to your room, or one charming table can ensure you never lose your reading glasses.
The best bedside tables for your bedroom | PopSci Commerce Team | October 29, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIve, who pioneered elegance and simplicity in electronics, left Apple last year to found his own design company, LoveFrom.
For James, the Northwest displayed a delightfully slouchy elegance he’d almost forgotten about in New York.
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“Physically, Vidal has an elegance that compared to Buckley’s restlessness illuminates the debate segments in a way that people familiar with it will recognize.”
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.
How Oscar de la Renta Created First Lady Fashion | Raquel Laneri | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis 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.”
Is This the End of CR Fashion Book?; Armani Names New Protégé | The Fashion Beast Team | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEngland 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.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayAfter all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettHe was distinguished for personal courage, as well as taste for elegance and splendor, whence he was called the munificent.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe 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 MunsellThe 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
elegancy
/ (ˈɛlɪɡəns) /
dignified grace in appearance, movement, or behaviour
good taste in design, style, arrangement, etc
something elegant; a refinement
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