ELEGANTLY

elegantly

(adverb) in a gracefully elegant manner; “the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do”

elegantly

(adverb) with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner; “the room was elegantly decorated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

elegantly (comparative more elegantly, superlative most elegantly)

Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

Source: Wiktionary


El"e*gant*ly, adv.

Definition: In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

ELEGANT

El"e*gant, a. Etym: [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. élégant. See Elect.]

1. 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. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Syn.

– Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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