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adjective refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
adjective suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
adjective displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
originFrom Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).
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