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

Why, I seen th’ day——” In the midst of a dissertation upon the elegancies of hand-set type and the blasted frightfulness of an existence surrounded by linotype machines, Shea stretched out and fell asleep.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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

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