elegancy
noun
elegancies
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pluralof elegancy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speeches were always in order—the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amidst these rural elegancies which Shenstone was raising about him, his muse has pathetically sung his melancholy feelings— But did the Muses haunt his cell, Or in his dome did Venus dwell?—
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
The historian or the philosopher does not aim at all the beauties or elegancies of expression, but only such as are proper to history or philosophy.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
It was a revelation to Rose of the elegancies of a dainty, finicky girl's toilet.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
