"elegancy" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-elegancy.wav Forms: elegancies [plural]
Etymology: From elegance + -y or elegant + -cy. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|elegance|y}} elegance + -y, {{suffix|en|elegant|cy}} elegant + -cy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} elegancy (countable and uncountable, plural elegancies)
  1. Alternative form of elegance Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: elegance
    Sense id: en-elegancy-en-noun-w9HYsqgU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cy, English terms suffixed with -y, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. (humorous) A mock title. Tags: countable, humorous, uncountable
    Sense id: en-elegancy-en-noun-dFpLS1U2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: inelegancy

Inflected forms

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