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Meanings of dress elegantly in English

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Usage of dress elegantly in English
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Many of these nouveaux riches dress elegantly, and their jewels are splendid.
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
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Amid policy observations he spoke of the need for the discerning male to dress elegantly.
The Guardian
3
The proceeds from the burglaries would have permitted him to dress elegantly, to show off with the finest women.
The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein
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Officials, ministers, and noblemen dress elegantly, their costumes being made from the finest silk lawn, and they wear silken girdles.
Travels in the Far East
5
She says all the girls at Signor Madalini's dancing academy dress elegantly, and she's positively ashamed to appear in any of her present dresses.
Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
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It was a tall woman in her late forties, dressed elegantly.
Skypoint
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She was always dressed elegantly, but in absolute good taste.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Fela was still dressed elegantly, but her hair was unpinned.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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She had always dressed elegantly, even when she couldn't afford a railway ticket to London.
The Guardian
10
Though not handsome, the tall, slender grandson of Russian immigrants dressed elegantly and spoke with provocative wit.
The Irish Times
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The young woman, tall and sinewy and lovely, was dressed elegantly, a diamond necklace about her swanlike neck.
Beautiful assassin
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Christian, who is dressed elegantly, but rather behind the fashion, seems preoccupied, and keeps looking at the boxes.)
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Dressed elegantly in a dark suit, he was greeted by dozens of Sunni children in matching blue and white uniforms.
Reuters
14
She was dressed elegantly, although without ostentation, and she came towards her guests with an ease as delightful as their own.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1
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He was dressed elegantly as usual, with a gray silk tie over a striped blue and white shirt with French cuffs.
Silent screams
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