Definitions
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- adjective Too elegant.
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- adjective Excessively
elegant .
Etymologies
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over- + elegant
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Examples
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“I am much honored,” began Sitnikov, stepping sideways, smirking and pulling off his overelegant gloves.
Fathers and Sons 2003
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For all the wealth and technology applied to the streets and corridors of the city, for all the fantastic decorations, I saw nothing of the overelegant, nothing of the decadent, of the Sertian.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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