All 4 Uses of
elegant
in
Washington Square
- Mrs. Sloper was amiable, graceful, accomplished, elegant, and in 1820 she had been one of the pretty girls of the small but promising capital which clustered about the Battery and overlooked the Bay, and of which the uppermost boundary was indicated by the grassy waysides of Canal Street.†
Chpt 1
- Marian Almond was a pretty little person of seventeen, with a very small figure and a very big sash, to the elegance of whose manners matrimony had nothing to add.†
Chpt 4 *
- She picked out a less elegant resort, and on issuing from its portal at the hour she had fixed she saw the young man standing apart.†
Chpt 21
- A long time passed, but Morris remained absent; the shadows gathered; the evening settled down on the meagre elegance of the light, clear-coloured room; the fire went out.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(elegant as in: an elegant gown) refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style