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.
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
Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
Never did the captain sacrifice force to elegancy of expression.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
The ceiling is plastered with massive gilding, the effect of which is rather cumbrous than ornamental; "not graced with elegancy, but daubed with cost."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 by Various
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
This capital is certainly unsurpassed by any of the British colonies in the elegancies and luxuries of modern civilization, such as broad avenues, palatial dwellings, churches, colossal warehouses, banks, theatres, and public buildings and pleasure-grounds.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
But a similar internal gift must direct the skill of every fancy-artist who subserves the luxuries and elegancies of life.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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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