elegance

noun

Etymology: From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).

1. Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

   “The bride was elegance personified.”

2. Restraint and grace of style.

   “The simple dress had a quiet elegance.”

3. The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

   “The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.”

4. A refinement or luxury.

   “As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.”

   “At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.”