élégante

See also: elegante and êlégante

English

Noun

élégante (plural élégantes)

1. Alternative spelling of elegante.
   • 1808, Charles Sedley, The Faro Table; or, The Gambling Mothers. A Fashionable Fable., volume I, London: […] J. Dean, […] for J. F. Hughes, […], page 141:

     “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. […]”

   • 1913, Edward Legge, More about King Edward, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 195:

     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.

   • 1913, Julius M[endes] Price, Dame Fashion: Paris—London (1786—1912), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ld., page 50:

     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.

   • 2020, Judithe Little, “Élégantes”, in The Chanel Sisters, Toronto, Ont.: Graydon House, Harlequin Books S.A., →ISBN, chapter 46:

     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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.le.ɡɑ̃t/

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Adjective

élégante

1. feminine singular of élégant