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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"

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

... now. One autumn day, a transport arrived with provisions, in charge of an officer, a young man of about twenty-five. He reported himself to me in full uniform, and announced that he had been ordered to remain in the fortress with me. He was so very elegant, his complexion so nice and white, his uniform so brand new, that I immediately guessed that he had not been long with our army in ...

— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov

... Janet it was! Her silken gown was very "fashionable," somewhat too modish for good taste, for it was elaborately trimmed and embroidered. She wore considerable jewelry, including diamonds; her shoes were elegant and her hose daintily clocked; her hat must have been a French milliner's choicest creation. If good clothes could make Janet Orme a lady, there was no question of her social standing, yet even little Alora felt that ...

— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum

... reclining at his ease on an elegant sofa, his head comfortably propped up with pillows, and as far, at any rate, as face was concerned, appearing not a bit the worse for his late accident, and making himself quite at home; and there, too, ...

— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various

... the full-grown chamois are quite black and smooth, and formed like a perfect hook with very sharp points. These elegant creatures are the only animals of the antelope kind to be found in Western Europe. They choose for their home the ...

— The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various

... the door was thrown wide-open by a very elegant waiter, who looked anxiously at the windows, as if he was afraid they had been broken in the fray. Then he placed himself in the door-way with a very polite air, as if to intimate that he would there await ...

— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri

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