Elegance Definition

ĕlĭ-gəns
noun
The quality of being elegant.
Webster's New World
Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
American Heritage
Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.
American Heritage

Restraint and grace of style.

The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
Wiktionary
Anything elegant.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Elegance

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.

  • Form fitted gowns are the epitome of elegance.

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

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

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

EELELE

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ECENCE

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