elegancy
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elegancies
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Origin of elegancy
From the Latin word ēlegantia, dating back to 1525–35. See elegant, -ancy
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His utterance was not exactly fraught with elegancy, but it expressed the feelings of all.
From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
The elegancy of which universum, though it cannot be rendered in our language; yet leaves an impression of the Wit on our souls.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
All her life she had been used to the elegancy that a wealthy parentage gave, and to which her husband had been, until within a few years, an entire stranger.
From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
We were prettily received and entertained here, and an elegancy ran through every thing, persons as well as furniture, yet all plain.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
Altogether Chorillos is a very unpretending and altogether uncomfortable place, in which there is little room for elegancy or self-assertion, the President of the Republic himself occupying a wretched, dirty Rancho.
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
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
We wish that, amid the elegancies of this hall, we could bring up before you some of the scenes of our past life.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
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