Elegance
Origin
From Middle French élégance.
Full definition of elegance
Noun
elegance
(usually uncountable; plural elegances)- Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or mannersThe bride was elegance personified.
- Restraint and grace of styleThe simple dress had a quiet elegance.
- The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precisionThe proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
- (countable) A refinement or luxury
- 1852, Various, Young Americans Abroad Chapter , As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
- 1881, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Chapter , At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
- 1909, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Governors Chapter 10, Phineas Duge, notwithstanding an absence of anything approaching vulgarity in his somewhat complex disposition, ...
was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.