All 3 Uses
elegant
in
The One and Only Ivan
(Edited)
- She can pick up a single peanut with elegant precision, tickle a passing mouse, tap the shoulder of a dozing keeper.
p. 30.1elegant = graceful
- I am an elegant fellow in her pictures, with my silver back gleaming like moon on moss.
p. 44.9elegant = attractive
- I look, as I always do in Julia's pictures, like an elegant fellow, but something is different about this drawing.
p. 248.5 *
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)