elegancies
Example Sentences
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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
She would even exchange all the elegancies and luxuries of life to feed on love and roses!
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
She was indeed a most elegant caligrapher, whom Roger Ascham107 had taught all the elegancies of the pen.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
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
