All 5 Uses of
elegant
in
The Idiot
- He had sat down just opposite to Nastasia, whose fingers he now took, and raised to his lips with great elegance, and much courtesy.†
Chpt 1.9 *elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
- The ladies dress elegantly, on these days, and it is the fashion to gather round the band, which is probably the best of our pleasure-garden bands, and plays the newest pieces.†
Chpt 3.2elegantly = in a refined and tasteful way
- Many of them expected to be thrown downstairs at once, without further ceremony, the elegant and irresistible Zaleshoff among them.†
Chpt 1.15
- Such a tile was about to descend upon the elegant and decorous public now assembled to hear the music.†
Chpt 3.2
- Besides the elevated and more solid individuals enumerated, there were present a few younger though not less elegant guests.†
Chpt 4.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(elegant as in: an elegant gown) refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style
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(2)
(elegant as in: as elegant equation) a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate