Meaning of elegante | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of elegante.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A fashionable lady.
   dated

Examples

““Really—my Lady,”-⁠-⁠-said the beau, adjusting his cravat, and following a sprightly élégante round the room, with his eye-glass—“your observation is very outrée—very outrée, indeed.[…]””

“The huge building in which the Hyde Park Club is located formed a rallying-place for a vast number of élégantes, and in the gardens of all the houses at Albert Gate tents, pavilions, and platforms had been erected.”

“Jewellery in various forms (diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and garnets especially), flowers in sprays and bunches, valuable fans, reticules embroidered in passementerie, completed the toilette of an élégante in Waterloo year.”

“The boutique was a swirl of élégantes in fashionable ensembles, bobbing about in hobble skirts—Poiret’s latest infliction, as Gabrielle liked to say—laughing about how their coachmen had to lift them into carriages because it was impossible to climb up with bound knees.”

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