All 8 Uses of
elegant
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- He was thirty-three years old and new to Lexington, Kentucky, and she had risen out of the crowd like some kind of vision, her blond hair swept back in an elegant chignon, pearls glimmering at her throat and on her ears.
p. 5..3elegant = refined and tasteful
- A robe, he said, scanning the aisles until he caught sight of her hair, a dark green shoulder, her bent head revealing the elegant pale curve of her neck.
p. 5..5
- Three weeks later, Caroline had opened the newspaper to find the wedding photo on the society page: Norah Asher, now Mrs. David Henry, caught with her head turned, her neck elegant, her eyelids faintly curved, like shells….
p. 28..6
- Velvet drapes brushed the floor, remnants from the far-flung time when this place had been an elegant estate.
p. 28..7
- David kissed his forehead, regretting that moment of anger, marveling at his son's shoulder blades, elegant and perfect, stretching out like wings beneath layers of skin and muscle.
p. 141..0
- She'd gotten thin and sharp-boned beneath her elegance.
p. 292..4elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
- It was an old two-story house, split almost exactly in half, with thin partitions dividing what had been expansive rooms; even the stairway, once wide and elegant, had been cut in half.
p. 310..9 *elegant = refined and tasteful in appearance
- He had sometimes imagined, theoretically, the possibility of having the house to himself: walls that might come down, space opening up, this duplex reverting in slow stages to the elegant single-family home it had once been.
p. 314..4elegant = refined and tasteful
Definition:
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(elegant as in: an elegant gown) refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style