Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an elegant manner; with elegance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
gracefully ,smoothly , and swiftly; with supreme style.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a gracefully elegant manner
- adverb with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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What most, who let this term elegantly drop into a discussion, like to forget is, that a hype cycle doesn't care about the usefulness of a technology, doesn't care about the acceptance, the number of users, doesn't care about the volume of business ... it only models the volume of buzz in the press.
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What most, who let this term elegantly drop into a discussion, like to forget is, that a hype cycle doesn't care about the usefulness of a technology, doesn't care about the acceptance, the number of users, doesn't care about the volume of business ... it only models the volume of buzz in the press.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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But in case your home uses plenty of glass, then a stone mantle styled elegantly is also an excellent choice.
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Knowing our views regarding the use of wine as a beverage, Mr. Wu had provided delicious tea in elegantly decorated covered china cups, and sweatmeats by way of compensation.
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The prince, however, was mindful of me, and the next day I received from the Persian embassy the word elegantly written in Persian, with the translation, "_a pelican_."
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Talmud tells us that the only language the Torah could be translated into elegantly is Greek.
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Kislev 19, 5770 - December 6, 2009 ] 2009
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