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ELEGANCE

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elegance substantiv

1. eleganţă.

2. (fam.) maniere alese; haine elegante.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Jane Fairfax was very elegant, remarkably elegant; and she had herself the highest value for elegance.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It happened to catch Sophia's eye before it caught mine—and its size, the elegance of the paper, the hand-writing altogether, immediately gave her a suspicion.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove; but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight, her convenience was always to give way—she was only Anne.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting, from the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our sister.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

When she took in her history, indeed, her situation, as well as her beauty; when she considered what all this elegance was destined to, what she was going to sink from, how she was going to live, it seemed impossible to feel any thing but compassion and respect; especially, if to every well-known particular entitling her to interest, were added the highly probable circumstance of an attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had so naturally started to herself.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

They were, of course, very anxious to see a person on whom so much of their comfort at Barton must depend; and the elegance of her appearance was favourable to their wishes.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was certainly never brilliant, but she would not allow it to have a sickly hue in general; and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Her manners had all the elegance which her husband's wanted.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)




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