élégante

plural élégantes

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of elegante.

   “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.[…]”

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

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

   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.

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

   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.

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