adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elegant
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Italian people are often admired for their elegant clothes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The room was as elegant as its occupant.
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His playing here is, as expected, note perfect, playful, but as elegant and swinging as ever.
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He could get no results as elegant as those with peas.
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Well, the reality is not quite as elegant as you might want.
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Its laws are as elegant as is the idea of natural selection.
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It is all as elegant as it is charming.
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Madame Escoffier's son gives it a more elegant name.
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The Brestowskis have tried to transform the space into a more elegant restaurant, but it isn't quite that.
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The shoe should flatter the foot, making it appear narrower and more elegant than it is.
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He in turn seemed to enjoy her conversation as a reminder of a more elegant and carefree prewar world.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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A more elegant and courtly preparation was quail in aspic, often served with foie gras or truMes.
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A much more elegant method is to re-program the computer's operating system to remove the safeguard.
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Some recipes include hard-boiled eggs and spinach, but this version is simpler and more elegant .
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The first class Regency Restaurant is one of the most elegant in Brighton and Hove.
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They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised.
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This has to be the most elegant and beautiful of all the tern tribe.
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He was almost the most elegant man many of them had ever seen.
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Constance thought the audience the most elegant crowd of people she had ever seen.
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The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine.
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Some of the most elegant women in London come through these doors.
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I went in to watch the day's most elegant event ... the private driving competition.
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She felt a small warmth of pride kindle in her. So elegant he was.
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Around the main house were many smaller buildings, all white with the same red-tiled roofs that made the house so elegant .
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Fair, dark, slim, plump, elegant , not so elegant.
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The birch forests of Siberia, so upright, so elegant in autumn, had been broken by this winter campaign.
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Do we need this old Graeco-Roman game - like Eliot's Shakespeherian rag, so elegant , so intelligent?
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The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this.
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His work is always very elegant , always beautiful, but there is an element of surprise in it too.
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The Hamiltonian formulation provides a very elegant and symmetrical description of mechanics.
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They are quite unmistakable, and are often very elegant indeed, especially when they are perfectly circular and symmetrical.
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They are not particularly high, but very elegant and their remote location makes a visit a must.
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The women of Parma were very elegant .
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It had strange obtuse teeth, he thought it was part of an old church clock. Very elegant tapered spoke-arms.
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There must have been two dozen people there, all chattering brightly and looking very elegant .
■ NOUN
hotel
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Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves.
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He takes the best suite in the turret of the elegant Hotel Excelsior.
house
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At night no light shows in the elegant houses on Srinagar's boulevards.
man
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He was almost the most elegant man many of them had ever seen.
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A thin, elegant man with shifty eyes and a high, unpleasant voice, Wood exuded a restless, hurried air.
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Then, plainly frantic to escape the elegant man , he punched the boat's engines into life.
restaurant
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Furnished to a very high standard, large elegant Restaurant with extensive menus.
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The Brestowskis have tried to transform the space into a more elegant restaurant , but it isn't quite that.
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There is an elegant restaurant and a piano bar.
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It houses an elegant restaurant from which the views across the Danube to the parliament building and much of Pest are magnificent.
solution
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It was for these reasons that a search for more elegant solutions was started in 1969-1970.
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I know what scientists mean when they talk about elegant solutions .
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This is not an elegant solution .
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AsiaSurf is a simple, elegant solution to a vexing software problem.
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One way would be: However the following example would be a more elegant solution .
surroundings
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The Consort Select menu and elegant surroundings .
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The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings , and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
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That's the unanimous verdict of shoppers who are impressed by the elegant surroundings , high quality shops and first rate service.
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It was slung around his shoulder in such an elegant way that it seemed a fashion accessory.
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Bio2 was an elegant way to do this.
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In the elegant way of innocent men, he accepted his gift graciously.
woman
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Judy, an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour, bids us sit down in the verandah.
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Inside the elegant woman he saw a coarse one.
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Some of the most elegant women in London come through these doors.
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I date slender, elegant women .
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Now, remember the elegant woman , always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
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She is a tall, elegant woman with fine cheekbones and smooth pale skin.
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Marta Rita Prince de Garcia is an elegant woman with a penchant for the drama of life.
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Deborah was a tall, elegant woman with dark hair.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black/elegant etc (little) number
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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elegant handwriting
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All the dancers looked so elegant as they moved slowly round the room.
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an elegant rosewood dining table
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an elegant solution
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An elegant young woman sat at the next table, sipping a cocktail.
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He was a tall, elegant man, silver-haired and beautifully dressed.
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Her good looks and confident, elegant manner made her the centre of attention.
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Jody manages to look elegant , even in a simple pantsuit.
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She was wearing an elegant black suit.
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The elegant figure of Mr Reed appeared in the doorway.
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The house was elegant and well kept.
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The plain black dress set off her elegant neck.
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Vienna is a city of grand public buildings and elegant private ones.
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We first met him at an elegant hotel in the uptown district of Manhattan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Furnished to a very high standard, large elegant Restaurant with extensive menus.
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Ludens also noticed her small feet, clad in expensive discreetly elegant shoes.
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My first impression of the hull above my head was how elegant and how travel-worn it looked.
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She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from.
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She has to be funny, touching and innately elegant .
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She was wearing her favourite yellow linen dress and pretty cream high-heeled shoes with Jim's pearls gleaming against her elegant neck.
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Tilney arrives with his sister, a more reserved and elegant girl than Isabella.