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