"Elegant" is a word in ENGLISH
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste;
characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of
every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry,
completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful
and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of
composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or
sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
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The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms …
Read the complete definitionSought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.
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