Elegance definitions

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Elegance is defined as full of richness, grace and etiquette.

An example of elegance is the manner of a princess.

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Something elegant.
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Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
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Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.
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Restraint and grace of style.
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Scientific exactness and precision.
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The quality of being elegant.
  • Dignified richness and grace, as of design.
  • Polished fastidiousness or refined grace, as in manners.
  • Clever aptness and simplicity.
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Anything elegant.
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The bride was elegance personified.

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The simple dress had a quiet elegance.

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The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.

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(countable) A refinement or luxury.
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Origin of elegance

From Middle French élégance.

Sentence Examples

  • She shrugged with as much elegance as she could muster, and eyed him with deliberate interest.

  • His Presidential Discourses (published, London, 1896) were full of elegance and culture.

  • The lean-to is the least desirable form, since it scarcely admits of elegance of design, but it is necessarily adopted in many cases.

  • Of his admiration of Hume's style, of its nameless grace of simple elegance, he has left us a strong expression, when he tells us that it often compelled him to close the historian's volumes with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.

  • "All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each deliberately spoken word.

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