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Elegance definition

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

An example of elegance is the manner of a princess.

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Scientific exactness and precision.
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Anything elegant.
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Something elegant.
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Restraint and grace of style.
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The bride was elegance personified.

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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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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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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of elegance - elegancy

Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
elegance
Plural:
elegances

Origin of elegance

  • From Middle French élégance.

    From Wiktionary

Elegance Sentence Examples

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

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

  • Form fitted gowns are the epitome of elegance.

  • The facade is a triumph of graceful elegance; so light is the tracery, so rich the decoration, so successful the breach of symmetry which gives us a wing upon the left-hand side but none upon the right.

  • On three sides it is well preserved, and displays remarkable variety and elegance in its sculptured decorations.

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