English
Noun
elegance (usually uncountable, plural elegances)
- Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
- The bride was elegance personified.
- Restraint and grace of style
- The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
- The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
- The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
- (countable) A refinement or luxury
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1852, Various, Young Americans Abroad:- As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
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1881, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1:- At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
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1909, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 10, in The Governors:- Phineas Duge […] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
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Translations
grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
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- French: élégance (fr) f, grâce (fr) f, finesse (fr) f
- German: Eleganz (de) f
- Hindi: लालित्य (hi) (Lālitya), शिष्टता (hi) (Śiṣṭatā)
- Japanese: 優雅 (ja) (ゆうが, yūga), 高雅 (ja) (こうが, kōga), 典雅 (てんが, tenga)
- Portuguese: elegância (pt) f
- Romanian: eleganță (ro) f, grație (ro) f, finețe (ro) f
- Russian: элега́нтность (ru) f (elegántnostʹ), изы́сканность (ru) f (izýskannostʹ), изя́щество (ru) n (izjáščestvo)
- Swedish: elegans (sv) c
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restraint and grace in style
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- Portuguese: elegância (pt) f
- Russian: элега́нтность (ru) f (elegántnostʹ), изы́сканность (ru) f (izýskannostʹ)
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beauty of an idea
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- Russian: элега́нтность (ru) f (elegántnostʹ)
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Czech
Noun
elegance f
- elegance
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