What is "elegance"

Usage examples of "elegance".

I allowed myself a moment to savor her unaccustomed elegance and realized she was enticing the knot of eager and noble youth around her to wager on the fall of a delicate set of applewood runes, tucking silver and gold coin discreetly into the little velvet bag on a ribbon at her waist.

Zoe assumed that Arcadia was in her early forties, but she possessed the timeless elegance of a 1930s film star.

The language was no longer pure, and neither prose nor poetry retained the harmony and elegance of the Augustan age.

The Conriyans might look brutish with their beards, especially amid the clean-shaven elegance of the Imperial Nansur Court, but their dress was impeccable.

Beau Brummell sauntered in, a picture of sartorial elegance, though he wore the simplest outfit possible, with no jewelry except a plain gold ring.

With rare insight and rarer taste he discountenanced the prevalent Merovingian hand, and substituted in eclectic hand, known as the Carolingian Minuscule, which way still be regarded as a model of clearness and elegance.

Georges Pouchet, je vis dans une cour des palefreniers et des cochers occupes a panser des chevaux et a nettoyer des voitures qui, par leur elegance, etaient si peu en situation dans ce quartier que, tout en bavardant avec Pouchet, je lui demandai a qui appartenaient ces equipages.

For all of their attempts at grandeur, none of them could come close to matching the elegance Lierin had in her little finger.

Dudley that still retained its dignity, the sedateness, graceful condescension and personal elegance of Constantia, were new to the apprehension of Ormond.

He describes with truth and elegance the settlement and manners of the Moguls of Persia, but he is ignorant of their origin, and corrupts the names of Zingis and his sons.

Clyde did his best, and a very good best it was, to infuse something of the banquet into their prolonged desert picnics, but even snow-cooled Heidsieck lost its flavour when you were convinced that the dusky cupbearer who served it with such reverent elegance was only waiting a convenient opportunity to cut your throat.

This good, omniscient understanding told him also that he was again confronting a mystery whose proper interpretation was important for his life, that this slut or demimondaine, this scent of elegance, seduction, and sex, was by no means repugnant and insulting to him.

But there is room to suspect that the elegance of his designs and engraving has somewhat flattered the objects which it was their purpose to represent.

True, Angelica was an impeccable hostess, presiding over the White House with an elegance that Dolley knew she herself had never achieved.

He selected Duroc because be was a man of good education and agreeable manners, and one who could express himself with elegance and reserve, qualities not often met with at that period.