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Answer for the clue "Beautiful carriage ", 12 letters:
gracefulness

Word definitions for gracefulness in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gracefulness , or being graceful , is the physical characteristic of displaying "pretty agility", in the form of elegant movement, poise , or balance . The etymological root of grace is the Latin word gratia from gratus , meaning pleasing. Gracefulness ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. beautiful carriage [ant: awkwardness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graceful \Grace"ful\, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being graceful.

Usage examples of gracefulness.

Finally he managed to stay on, and the lightness of the McClellan saddle must have pleased the pinto after the heavy Texas saddles, for when he felt the man securely on his back he began to move with a new gracefulness, and for the first time in his life Bufe Coker understood what a horse could be.

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.

Our supper was delicious, and my Tonine charmed me with the gracefulness of her carriage.

Their eyes and trailing manes glowed lambent in the simulated starlight, and their movements had the aching gracefulness of swans taking flight.

Finally he managed to stay on, and the lightness of the McClellan saddle must have pleased the pinto after the heavy Texas saddles, for when he felt the man securely on his back he began to move with a new gracefulness, and for the first time in his life Bufe Coker understood what a horse could be.

Somehow, Her Gracefulness had simply for gotten about it when His Majesty's Government came around requisitioning motorcars.