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
Its mistress was educated in England, and has here surrounded herself with many European comforts and elegancies.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
Gifted with marvellous talents, versed in ancient history, a master of all the liberal arts and of the elegancies of life, he deserved to be called the Apelles of his age and of all ages.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
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
