elegance

[ el-i-guhns ]

noun

1. elegant quality:

   elegance of dress.

2. something elegant; a refinement.

elegance

/ ˈɛlɪɡəns /

noun

1. dignified grace in appearance, movement, or behaviour
2. good taste in design, style, arrangement, etc
3. something elegant; a refinement

Other Words From

• hyper·ele·gance noun
• over·ele·gance noun
• super·ele·gance noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of elegance¹

1500–10; < Middle French < Latin ēlegantia choiceness. See elegant, -ance

Example Sentences

A table on either side can add a symmetrical elegance to your room, or one charming table can ensure you never lose your reading glasses.

From Popular-Science

Ive, who pioneered elegance and simplicity in electronics, left Apple last year to found his own design company, LoveFrom.

From Quartz

For James, the Northwest displayed a delightfully slouchy elegance he’d almost forgotten about in New York.

From Eater

Buy nowThe elegance of finely crafted walnut combined with innovative tracking technology makes this hangboard the ultimate at-home training tool for climbers who don’t have the space for a wall.

From Outside Online

“Physically, Vidal has an elegance that compared to Buckley’s restlessness illuminates the debate segments in a way that people familiar with it will recognize.”

From Washington Blade

There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.

From The Daily Beast

He would have probably done both in much the same way: with elegance and restraint, yet radically.

From The Daily Beast

This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.

From The Daily Beast

Bratis, who trained in Athens, creates pieces of “femininity and pure elegance without artifice.”

From The Daily Beast

England was almost as good, if mostly in the elegance of their defense.

From The Daily Beast

She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.

From Project Gutenberg

After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.

From Project Gutenberg

He was distinguished for personal courage, as well as taste for elegance and splendor, whence he was called the munificent.

From Project Gutenberg

He wrote verses with elegance in French, Spanish and Italian, and was a polisher of his native language in a barbarous age.

From Project Gutenberg

The elegance of his stature and the pensive melancholy of his classic features invested him with a peculiar power of fascination.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• charm
• delicacy
• dignity
• gentility
• grace
• grandeur
• luxury
• magnificence
• nobility
• purity
• refinement
• restraint
• sophistication
• splendor
• style