elegance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Graceful beauty and good taste in appearance, manners, or style.

   The hotel lobby was decorated with great elegance.

2. 2
   noun

   Pleasing simplicity, especially in the way a problem is solved.

   Everyone admired the elegance of the new mathematical proof.

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From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).

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