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Elegant

adjective

Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style. "An elegant dark suit" , "She was elegant to her fingertips" , "Small churches with elegant white spires" , "An elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" Antonym: inelegant.

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth. Synonyms: graceful, refined.

Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution. "An elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

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"Elegant" Quotes from Famous Books

... God knows! is soporiferous enough. I was walking through the entrance saloon with my fair cousin on my arm, stepping out like a hero to the opening crash of a fine military band, towards the entrance of the splendid ball—room filled with elegant company, brilliantly lighted up and ornamented with the most rare and beautiful shrubs and flowers, which no European conservatory could have furnished forth, and arched overhead with palm branches and a profusion of evergreens, while the polished floor, like one vast ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... study of law. Doubtless the sirens sang to him, as to the noble youth of every country and time. Musing over Coke and Blackstone, perhaps he saw himself succeeding Ames and Otis and Webster, the idol of society, the applauded orator, the brilliant champion of the elegant ease, and the cultivated conservatism of Massachusetts. * * * But one October day he saw an American citizen assailed by a furious mob in the city of James Otis for saying with James Otis that a man's right to liberty is inherent and inalienable. As the jail doors closed upon Garrison ...

— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis

... posterity; and therefore I am careful to do justice to every man who hath fallen in the quarrel, on which side soever, as you will find by what I have said of Mr. Hambden himself. I am now past that point; and being quickened your most elegant and political commemoration of him, and from hints there, thinking it necessary to say somewhat for his vindication in such particulars as may possibly have made impression in good men, it may be I have insisted longer upon the argument than may be agreeable ...

— Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles • Various

... the tan-brick buildings, "El Dorado" writ in elegant gilt script across the transom. Then up three flights of clean, new, fireproof stairs, Harry inserting his key into one of the two doors that ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... an issue for the Montauk, sir, I never would have counselled Captain Truck to lay in half the stores we did, and most essentially not the new lots of vines. Oh! sir, it is truly awful to have such a calamity wisit so much elegant preparation!" ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

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