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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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.
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
He speaks of 'his fine expression, elegancy, and quaintness,' and adds, 'he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable23.'
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
The chief secret is the choice of words; 224 and, by this choice, I do not here mean elegancy of expression, but propriety of sound, to be varied according to the nature of the subject.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
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
Why, I seen th’ day——” In the midst of a dissertation upon the elegancies of hand-set type and the blasted frightfulness of an existence surrounded by linotype machines, Shea stretched out and fell asleep.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
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