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Definition of Elegances
1. elegance [n] - See also: elegance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegances
Literary usage of Elegances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Iohn Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.: To which are Added a Selection from His by John Evelyn (1906)
"Sir Thos Linch was returned from his government of Jamaica. of Requests, a nice
contriver of all elegances, and exceedingly formall. ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"... of a lady by a fashionable artist never does. like elegances of f orm ; with
the Mr. Morris also is sometimes awkward, and often involved aud obscure. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... pleasures, elegances attend him, x golden Fortune accompanies and lodgeth with
him ; and as to those Roman Em- ..."