Noun

(en-noun)

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

* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation

, passage=Phineas Duge

Noun

Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.

* Milton

We seek peace and composure .

* I. Watts

When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .

*

“Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro's early composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1798 , author=Giacomo Casanova , title=The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt , chapter=92 citation , passage=He began to lose his composure , and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild.}}

(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

* Evelyn

Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.

(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.

* Woodward

Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.

(obsolete) frame; make; temperament

* Shakespeare

His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.

(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.

(Shakespeare)

(Webster 1913)