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• elegant — 01. She looked very [elegant] in a long, black, velvet dress. 02. The furniture displayed a wonderful combination of [elegance] and practicality. 03. The young bride walked [elegantly] down the aisle to where her future husband was waiting. 04.… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Elegant — El e*gant, a. [L. elegans, antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. [ e]l[ e]gant. See {Elect}.] 1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• elegant variation — is the name Fowler (1926) gave to a celebrated article, nearly six columns long, on misguided avoidance of repetition which leads the user into stylistic traps that are anything but elegant, such as using women and ladies, cases and instances, or …   Modern English usage

• Elegant Tern — Taxobox image width = 250px name = Elegant Tern status = NT | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Sternidae genus = Thalasseus species = T. elegans binomial = Thalasseus… …   Wikipedia

• elegant — adjective 1 very beautiful and graceful: a tall, elegant woman | elegant handwriting 2 an idea or a plan that is elegant is very clever and simple: an elegant solution to a problem elegantly adverb elegance noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Elegant MACHINERY — Infobox musical artist | Name = elegant MACHINERY Background = group or band Origin = flag|Sweden Genre = Synthpop Futurepop Years active = 1988 – 1999, 2004 present Label = Energy Rekords, A Different Drum, Contrasena URL =… …   Wikipedia

• elegant — adj. VERBS ▪ be, feel, look ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ particularly …   Collocations dictionary

• elegant — el|e|gant [ˈelıgənt] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: Latin elegans specially chosen as being of good quality , from eligere; ELECT1] 1.) beautiful, attractive, or graceful ▪ a tall, elegant young woman ▪ You can dine in elegant… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• very — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. Very is used with these nouns: ↑antithesis, ↑brink, ↑centre, ↑core, ↑corner, ↑day, ↑edge, ↑end, ↑essence, ↑existence, ↑fundamentals, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• elegant — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Babylonian, Ciceronian, Corinthian, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, apt, arabesque, artistic, attractive, august, auspicious, awe inspiring, awful, barbaric, baroque, beauteous, beautiful,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• piss elegant — mod. very pretentious; overly elegant. (Usually objectionable.) □ Man, this place is piss elegant. Look at them lamp shades! □ I ain’t never seen such a piss elegant bathroom! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions