All 13 Uses of
elegant
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- In fact, the village longed for the elegance of city recreations almost as much as the cities longed for village sports; and Gopher Prairie took as much pride in neglecting coasting as St. Paul—or New York—in going coasting.†
Chpt 7 *elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
- She wanted people to believe that her husband and she were accustomed to luxury and chill elegance; she was faintly angry at him for the vulgar way in which, after signing the register "Dr. W. P. Kennicott & wife," he bellowed at the clerk, "Got a nice room with bath for us, old man?"†
Chpt 17
- Kind of—oh, elegant.†
Chpt 4
- There were five automobiles on the street all at the same time—and one of 'em was a great big car that must of cost two thousand dollars—and the 'bus was starting for a train with five elegant-dressed fellows, and a man was pasting up red bills with lovely pictures of washing-machines on them, and the jeweler was laying out bracelets and wrist-watches and EVERYTHING on real velvet.†
Chpt 4
- Bea artlessly considered Carol the most beautiful and accomplished lady in the country; she was always shrieking, "My, dot's a swell hat!" or, "Ay t'ink all dese ladies yoost die when dey see how elegant you do your hair!"†
Chpt 9
- I just like elegant things.†
Chpt 10
- My, we'd have thought the one they have now was simply elegant!†
Chpt 11
- But she would not listen to his theory that "all this romance stuff is simply moonshine—elegant when you're courting, but no use busting yourself keeping it up all your life."†
Chpt 15
- At this second Carol realized that for all Guy's love of dead elegances his timidity was as depressing to her as the bulkiness of Sam Clark.†
Chpt 16
- It's going elegant tonight, but another play——Seems to me it'll be time enough to talk about that next fall.†
Chpt 18
- He declined the offers of motors; he walked off, his arm about the shoulder of Nat Hicks the sporting tailor, with the elegant Harry Haydock carrying one of his enormous pale leather bags, Del Snafflin the other, Jack Elder bearing an overcoat, and Julius Flickerbaugh the fishing-tackle.†
Chpt 23
- It's elegant....What do you think?†
Chpt 28
- And so——But here's what bothers me: I like fabrics; dinky things like that; little drawings and elegant words.†
Chpt 29
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