adj.
Characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. See synonyms at delicate.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ēlegāns, ēlegant-, present participle of *ēlegāre, variant of ēligere, to select. See elect.]
elegantly el'e·gant·ly adv.
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