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usually uncountable, plural elegances
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners. examples
Restraint and grace of style. examples
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision. examples
(countable, dated) A refinement or luxury. quotations examples
As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
1852, Various, Young Americans Abroad
At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
1881, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
Phineas Duge […] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
1909, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 10, in The Governors