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Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.
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A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.
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Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
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Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
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An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
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A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
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A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
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Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
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Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
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A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
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The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
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Shining; elegant; spruce.
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Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
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Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
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Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
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Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.
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Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
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Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
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Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
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Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like.
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