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elegant
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Edited)

For her remaining forty years, she was a resident of New York City's Waldorf Towers, where she created for herself an elegant Japanese-style suite on the thirty-second floor.
p. 2.7

elegant = refined and tasteful
I believed he knew things I would never know; and that he had an elegance I would never have; and that his blue kimono was finer than anything I would ever have occasion to wear.
p. 20.3

elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
I'd never seen such elegant clothing.
p. 29.2

elegant = refined and tasteful
They looked very elegant to me; though, as I later learned, they were mostly maids.
p. 36.3
The other was a small, elegant house sitting up on foundation stones in such a way that a cat might have crawled underneath it.
p. 38.5
After I took in the peculiar arrangement of all the little buildings, I noticed the elegance of the main house.
p. 38.8

elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
These elegant rooms turned out to be for the use of the family—and also Hatsumomo, even though, as I would come to understand, she wasn't a family member at all.
p. 38.9

elegant = refined and tasteful
Afterward she gave me a robe, which was nothing more than coarsely woven cotton in the simplest pattern of dark blue, but it was certainly more elegant than anything I'd ever worn before.
p. 40.1 *
And then I came upon a rude shock: for there above the collar of her elegant kimono was a face so mismatched to the clothing that it was as though I'd been patting a cat's body only to discover that it had a bulldog's head.
p. 41.7
It was nothing more than unlined cotton decorated with a childlike design of squares; I'm sure I looked no more elegant than a guest at an inn looks wearing a robe on the way to the bath.
p. 52.1
He may have been the size of a hippopotamus, but Awajiumi was a very elegant dresser.
p. 60.2
Considering that Awajiumi had such an important job, it was to every geisha's advantage to keep him happy, which was why he had a reputation for spending as much time out of his elegant clothes as in them.
p. 60.4
The futon was for the geisha Mameha; I could tell because of the crisp sheets and the elegant silk cover, as well as the takamakura—"tall pillow"—just like the kind Hatsumomo used.
p. 75.3
When I reached the Mizuki Teahouse, rain was beginning to fall; but the entrance was so elegant I was afraid to set foot in it.
p. 81.3
Still, she was far more elegant than I was, and looked down at me with contempt.
p. 81.9
He seemed so elegant to me that I blushed and looked away.
p. 111.5
Mameha's apartment wasn't large, but it was extremely elegant, with beautiful tatami mats that were obviously new, for they had a lovely yellow-green sheen and smelled richly of straw.
p. 121.1
It's true she wore elegant clothing.
p. 131.5
For years she and I had envied the older girls who wore their hair so elegantly.
p. 154.8

elegantly = in a refined and tasteful way
I'd never been in such elegant surroundings before.
p. 167.2

elegant = refined and tasteful
Most people think it very elegant the way they taper down like a wedge, so that the footprint at the bottom is about half the size of the top.
p. 169.9
As I walked along behind Mameha, I focused my attention not on Nobu but on a very elegant man seated beside him on the same tatami mat, wearing a pinstripe men's kimono.
p. 195.6
The rooms were elegant in their own way, with dark wooden beams and so on; but instead of tatami mats and tables surrounded by cushions, the room into which I was shown that evening had a floor of hardwood, with a dark Persian rug, a coffee table, and a few overstuffed chairs.
p. 239.6
From time to time at elegant parties, I've been introduced to some young woman or other in a splendid dress and jewelry.
p. 291.2
He was slender like the branch of a willow, with elegant, slow-moving fingers, and a very long face he could move about in extraordinary ways; he could have fooled a group of monkeys into thinking he was one of them.
p. 327.7
Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten—namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground.
p. 348.3
I had no doubt our first encounter would be awkward, but I mulled it over the rest of that night and decided that maybe Pumpkin would appreciate being introduced into a more elegant circle, as a change from the soldiers' parties.
p. 365.6
And though she had the same broad face, her heavy cheeks had thinned, leaving her with a gaunt elegance that was astonishing to me.
p. 366.8

elegance = the quality of being refined and tasteful
I couldn't help remembering, with a terrible feeling of loss, her elegant apartment from years earlier, and the enchanting sound out those windows of water rushing over the knee-high cascade in the Shirakawa Stream.
p. 421.8

elegant = refined and tasteful

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(1) (elegant as in: an elegant gown)
refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style
(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)

elegant in Memoirs of a Geisha (Edited)

elegant
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Edited)