elegancies

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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

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

It was a revelation to Rose of the elegancies of a dainty, finicky girl's toilet.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

Charles Lamb mentions "saloop" in one of his essays, and says, "Palates otherwise not uninstructed in dietetical elegancies sup it up with avidity."

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The historian or the philosopher does not aim at all the beauties or elegancies of expression, but only such as are proper to history or philosophy.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias