Elegance Allusions, Definition, Citation, Reference, Information - Allusion to Elegance


  1. After Six, Inc. makers of men’s formal wear and accessories. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 9]
  2. Archer, Isabel American heiress undergoes process of refinement amid European culture. [Am. Lit.: The Portrait of a Lady]
  3. Ashley, Lady Brett heroine “as charming when drunk as when sober.” [Am. Lit.: The Sun Also Rises]
  4. dahlia represents elegance. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 406]
  5. Darlington, Lord epitome of London’s man about town (1800s). [Br. Lit.: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Magill I, 488–490]
  6. locust tree representing elegance. [Tree Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]
  7. Petronius called by Roman historian Tacitus “a man of refined luxury,” and “the arbiter of elegance”; lived in the reign of the emperor Nero. [Rom. Hist.: EB (1963) XVII 681]