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  • noun Plural form of elegancy.

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Examples

  • Some curious old paintings representing banqueting scenes, formerly in _Carlisle House_ were carefully preserved until the last few years, in the drawing-room of the corner house, when they were removed to make room for some needed "elegancies" of the modern print shops.

    Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 Various

  • "Never mind – it's not wet," he said, pulling his cap over his eyes and plunging into his coat, regardless of the "elegancies" that afflicted him.

    Rose in Bloom 1876

  • "Never mind it's not wet," he said, pulling his cap over his eyes and plunging into his coat, regardless of the "elegancies" that afflicted him.

    Rose In Bloom Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1876

  • "Never mind it's not wet," he said, pulling his cap over his eyes and plunging into his coat, regardless of the "elegancies" that afflicted him.

    Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • It was sad, really, to see the simple elegancies of life dwindle away even as you watched.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.

    Self-Reliance 2008 2008

  • Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.

    Self-Reliance 2008 2008

  • Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.

    Self-Reliance 2008 2008

  • Lavinia was too timid to oppose reason to this suffering; and Mr. Tyrold, already cruelly apprehensive the obscurity of their recluse lives contributed to her depression, and believing she compared her present privations to the lost elegancies of Beech Park, sighed heavily, yet said he was glad she would remove from a spot in which reminiscence was so painful.

    Camilla 2008

  • Strict neatness and cleanliness of person, seemed to intimate, that if poor, she was not reduced to squalid or heart-broken distress, and that she was still sufficiently attached to life to retain a taste for its decencies, if not its elegancies.

    The Abbot 2008

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