n.

1. 1. Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
   2. Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.
2. 1. Restraint and grace of style.
   2. Scientific exactness and precision.
3. Something elegant.

noun

Refined, effortless beauty of manner, form, and style: elegancy, grace, polish, urbanity. See beautiful/ugly, style/good style/bad style.

n

Definition: beauty, taste
Antonyms: crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness

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IN BRIEF: Richness; refinement; gracefulness of style or movement.

Knowledge is the only elegance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.

Quotes:

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace." - Tennessee Williams

"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity." - Vivienne Westwood

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery." - Yves Saint-Laurent

"Nothing is more elegant than ready money!" - French Proverb

"For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is." - Christian Lacroix

"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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