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- adjective slang
Elegance orsophistication , especially characterised bypretentiousness .
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Examples
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I've eaten here a couple of times and it's an amazing mix of piss-elegance, fine cuisine, and hammered Orange County uppercrusties who are nearly too drunk to stand (Club 33 is the only place in the park where you are allowed to drink).
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The Tom of Finland Nazi chic is about the refined, intellectual spirit of the Third Reich: The swooping Romanesques, the futuristic deco streamlining of the double-lightning-bolt SS insignia, the arch piss-elegance of the gentleman fascist with his swagger-stick and his precise little pistol in its gleaming leather holster.
Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002
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For a brief spell in the mid-Sixties, Edie Sedgwick was the debutante princess of piss-elegance, an Andy Warhol 'superstar' whose fashion trademark was a snowy white mink draped over a dimestore t-shirt.
R.I.P. Wolcott, James 1982
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