All 14 Uses of
elegant
in
War and Peace
- She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other.†
Chpt 1
- They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room.†
Chpt 1
- "All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each deliberately spoken word.†
Chpt 2
- What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.†
Chpt 2
- Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be made elegantly witty.†
Chpt 2
- The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 2
- He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his father's room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to him.†
Chpt 3
- Not only the generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay smooth—felt that no small matter was happening,…†
Chpt 3
- He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman's uniform, all these exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be aware of his existence.†
Chpt 3
- Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought back to the general circle.†
Chpt 5
- * Her success as a beautiful and elegant woman did not surprise Pierre, for she had become even handsomer than before.†
Chpt 6
- He was that absent-minded crank, a grand seigneur husband who was in no one's way, and far from spoiling the high tone and general impression of the drawing room, he served, by the contrast he presented to her, as an advantageous background to his elegant and tactful wife.†
Chpt 6
- Natasha turned her pretty little head toward the elegant young officer and smiled at him over her bare shoulder.†
Chpt 8
- Boris was elegantly dressed, with a slightly martial touch appropriate to a campaign.†
Chpt 10 *
Definition:
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(elegant as in: an elegant gown) refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style