- plural of elegancy.
elegancies
Example Sentences
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Speeches were always in order—the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The room was a mass of little luxuries—trifles too light and various to be describable, all the nameless elegancies of modern life, with its superfluities, its pretence of intellect, its discriminating taste.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
Music, embroidery, the backboard, and all the elegancies of the mind.
From Quality Street A Comedy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
He threw his arm around her shoulders regardless of possible damage to the elegancies of her court costume, and kissed her heartily.
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
